Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.

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

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.

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

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.

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

Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.

Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.

You have two changes at once here. You cannot attribute anything until one of them moves.

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

Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.

Same here.

Currently on keeping a copy of the prescription myself.

Enteric coatings should not be crushed. The pellets are the delivery mechanism.