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

File early. The window is shorter than people think and it starts at the transaction.

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going. Currently on a white round tablet myself.

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.

Ask for the longer appointment slot. Ten minutes is not enough for a complex history and pretending otherwise wastes both your time. Not on citalopram…

Log dose, time and sleep. Ten seconds a day and it turns the anecdote into something you can look at.

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison.