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

Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.

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

Name the active ingredient, not just the brand. It makes these threads searchable years later.

Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are.

Function over score.

Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are.

Same here.

How long before you can reasonably say something is or is not doing anything?