No wrong answers, and yours is a good one. Side effects was my main issue with an abandoned book too.

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going.

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

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

Photograph everything before you open it. Ten seconds, settles most disputes.

Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment. Currently on a decade of lurking myself.

Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point.

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