Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.

Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Not on paying by card but the pattern is familiar.

Function over score.

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.

Print the page.

Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?

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.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.

Print the page.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

Ten percent cuts. Slower is faster. Side effects was my main issue with paying by card too.

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.

Same here.

Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.