Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?

Worth repeating that this is not medical advice and the answer often depends on who you are.

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

Personal experience, labelled as such, is exactly right here. Nobody is prescribing.

This is the kind of post the forum exists for.

Do you contact the customs office or the carrier first? How long have you been on an online consultation model?

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

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. Not on reading the leaflet but the pattern is familiar.