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@Seabassd, it can take a few weeks for your body to adjust to any changes in meds and/or dosing. By changing things around on your own, you’re not giving your body a chance to adjust.
Worse, you may dismiss something as “not working”, when, in fact, if you gave it time, it would turn out to be the most effective med & dose for you. So, you’d keep going through the trial-and-error process, when you didn’t need to!
You can spice-up the “boring” process between doctor’s appointments by keeping a daily “meds journal”. That way, you can see how the med affects you (both good & bad ways) from day to day. And you can see how it all adds up over a stretch of time, instead of just thinking about how the meds are making you feel on that one day.
It’s pretty cool to look at how far you’ve come! Cool enough to keep you going, so you can see how far you’ve come in another week or two.
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