Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point. Not on temazepam but the pattern is familiar.

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

This is the correct amount of effort for a thread like this.

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

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

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

Ten percent cuts, of the current dose not the original. That is the arithmetic that keeps it survivable.