Sharing this because it took me an embarrassingly long time to work out. Do it before the appointment, not during it.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time.
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
Print the page.
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.
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.
Personal experience, labelled as such, is exactly right here. Nobody is prescribing.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
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.