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

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.

Batch and expiry copied from a real box will already be nearly expired. That is the tell.

Most of the popular protocol is borrowed from a clinical population and applied to healthy people without comment.

Imprint databases are mostly US-centric. A confident hit for another market is still a guess.

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