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

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

How do you tell the difference between the drug working and just a good week?

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

It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going. Currently on a chronic condition review myself.

This board overrates bloodwork. A number moving is not the outcome you wanted.