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

Nobody has ever been talked out of a stack by a stranger on the internet.

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week? Two months in on a bedside stack and it lines up.

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. Currently on dihydrocodeine myself.