Same shape here, different drug. The thing that helped was documenting the refusal rather than re-arguing it. They refer rather than write.

Filing early beats arguing later. And ask for the reference number, always. Not on a pharmacy-to-pharmacy transfer but the pattern is familiar.

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

Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do. Currently on sourcing requests myself.

Print the page.

Sleep first. Bad night, bad day, more symptoms. Fix that before changing anything else.

Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the sta…

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.

Fifteen years of this and the function column is the only one that changed anything for me. Also, one page of history, printed, handed over at the sta…

My rule, after years of this: if it cannot survive being written down with the numbers attached, it is marketing.

I would stop trying to convey how bad it is and start saying what you want them to do.

Everyone here blames the drug. Half the time it is the appointment schedule, not the molecule.

The last ten percent of a taper takes as long as the first ninety. Nobody says so until you are in it.