You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Same for me with hydrocodone, unfortunately.

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

Three questions kill most of the confidence in a thread like this: sample size, blinding, who paid. Same for me with semaglutide, unfortunately.

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