A few months into this taper and the thing that kept tripping me up wasn’t the skin, it was my own memory once I was actually sitting in the room. I’d nod along, say thanks, and walk out without asking the one thing I meant to ask about what comes after the current dose (classic me, too nervous to remember my own questions).
So now the night before each visit I put one line in my phone. Just what happened with my skin that week and the specific question I want answered, nothing fancier than that.
Brought it up at the last visit and actually got a real answer about the next step down instead of a vague “we’ll see.”
It’s not a tracker, no photos, just a sentence I can glance at in the waiting room so my brain has something to hold onto besides nerves. 4 appointments in and I haven’t shown up empty-handed since I started doing this.