Take one to a pharmacist. Free, two minutes, correct. Everything else here is a hypothesis.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

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

Same here.

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

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

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