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

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

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

Same here.

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

Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule. Not on the returns policy but the pattern is familiar.

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.

The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time.

Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.

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

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.

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

Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately. Same for me with the returns policy, unfortunately.