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

Small wins count. Walking to the mailbox is a data point. Same for me with coming back after years away, unfortunately.

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

An inconclusive account is useful if it stops the next person mistaking a story for a controlled comparison. Same for me with krill oil, unfortunately…

This is the correct amount of effort for a thread like this.

The sticker on the box is just so you know they were in there. It is the letter that matters.

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