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

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you. Four months in on keeping a copy of the prescription and it lines up.

Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.

Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are.

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

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

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment. Not on keeping a copy of the prescription but the pattern is familiar.

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?

Same here.

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.

Careful with attribution. You changed the timing, the dose and the season. That is three variables.

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Not on keeping a copy of the prescription but the pattern is familiar.

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week? How long have you been on keeping a copy of the prescription?