Lesson 2: Medical Resources.
Helping the Doctors Help You
Doctors are not all knowing and all seeing. A lot of their diagnosis depends on information they can get only from us. You've already been doing your homework - or started it. Now see what you can bring to that doctors appointment to make things easy on both you and the doctor.
- Bring a list of all of the symptoms that you have noted in yourself. Don't just rely on memory - consult the list in the first lesson and in your books.
- Make a list of everything you have tried to relieve the symptoms, and which worked.
- Bring a list of all medications you are on whether or not they relate to your fibro symptoms. Different medicines can interact together to make things worse and you want to avoid that at all costs.
- Have your family medical history ready if possible. You may not know everything, but try.
