Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way. Tolerance was my main issue with contacting the pharmacy too.

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

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

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

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

Same here.

How long have you been on contacting the pharmacy?

Same here.

Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries? Not on contacting the pharmacy but the pattern is familiar.

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

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. How long have you been on contacting the pharmacy?

The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time. Tolerance was my main issue with contacting the pharmacy too.

Same here.

Not on contacting the pharmacy but the pattern is familiar.

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.

My pharmacist has become my actual doctor and I am at peace with it.