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

Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless.

Worth asking what specifically was measured. Pain scores move with mood and function does not.

Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers.

Loose evidence and no evidence are different, and people overcorrect in both directions.