Contacting the pharmacy and the eight months of a routine that finally stuck.
It sounds fussy until the day it saves you five minutes and an argument.
Write it down on paper, in the room, not in an app you will not open.
Took me years to work this out.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment. Not on contacting the pharmacy but the pattern is familiar.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Function over score.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.
Same here.
Same for me with contacting the pharmacy, unfortunately.
You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.
Same here.
Not on contacting the pharmacy but the pattern is familiar.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are.
How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.
You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.