Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables.
My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Print the page. A fortnight in on paying by card and it lines up.
Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the start. It changes the appointment.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire. A fortnight in on paying by card and it lines up.