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

Domain age is one of the few signals that is expensive to fake and free to check. Six weeks in on New Zealand and it lines up.

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

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

A plausible mechanism is not an outcome, and this class is the textbook example.

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless. Not on pregabalin but the pattern is familiar.

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