You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in. Six weeks in on zolpidem and it lines up.

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

No wrong answers, and yours is a good one.

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. Currently on a coverage denial myself.

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

Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.

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