Same here.

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

The mug is the correct answer and everyone else is wrong.

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

Correct.

This is the correct amount of effort for a thread like this. Not on a useless object but the pattern is familiar.

Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.

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

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

Correct. How long have you been on a useless object?

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

Depressingly accurate.

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

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

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