Take one to a pharmacist. Free, two minutes, correct. Everything else here is a hypothesis. Tolerance was my main issue with a soft or crumbly tablet …

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

Print the page.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else. Same for me with diphenhydramine, unfortunately.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.

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