Thursday, September 6, 2012

Talk To Your Doctor About Your Symptoms

One of the most important decisions we face when we are diagnosed with a serious illness is the search and selection of a qualified doctor, we provide a high level of care and understanding we need, and we feel confident that a good treatment. Find the best doctor to control our disease, can be very difficult and frustrating.

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The doctor who has more knowledge about Sjogren's syndrome is the rheumatologist, is the person who is more informed about this disease. The Rheumatologist is prepared to meet Sjogren's syndrome and most autoimmune diseases.

Talking to your doctor about Sjogren syndrome.

Feeling comfortable and confident with your doctor is essential to the success of the doctor-patient relationship, to start working on finding the best treatment for you to find the best way to relieve your síntomas.Los following tips can help you establish a more productive dialogue with your doctor about your health to make sure you are communicating your needs and is being treated by your doctor about your symptoms.

Knowing when to talk about their symptoms.

Whenever you notice changes in your health or your body, you should tell your doctor immediately. no symptoms are insignificant. One of the main reasons why we are not diagnosed tiempo0 hope is that months or even years for symptoms of dryness discuss with our doctor. In fact the average time for diagnosis is over six years.

Want another reason more powerful to talk to your doctor? . Remember not addressed in their symptoms, including dry eye, dry mouth can lead to more serious health complications, increased risk of vision problems, tooth decay, fungal infection or inflammation of organs.

We know that the doctors did not give us much time in the office, maybe we do not have much time to have a chat, here are some tips to maximize the time we have with our doctor.

1.-do list. - Create a list of things you want to discuss, in order of importance (so it is very important to scoring all you notice changes in your body and all new symptoms.) So take advantage of his time to explain and discuss the most important to you.

2.-Be prepared to explain your symptoms. adelantase the questions your doctor can do, and have the answer to these questions, for example whether to discuss their symptoms of dry mouth ..

    a) when these symptoms start?
    b) and can explain these symptoms?
    c.) - how often these symptoms?
    d). - There are times of day when these symptoms are worse than usual?
    e). - have exacerbated these symptoms? Their symptoms affect your daily activities like eating, sleeping, talking, her relationship with her husband (o).
    f). - It has taken or has done to alleviate these symptoms (talks about all the medications you have or are taking)

Be Honest. -

it is quite possible that when we talk with our friends sometimes exaggerated to talk about the quality of our diet, the time spent exercising, our health. But it is very important, it is crucial to honestly answer the questions of our doctor. The more accurate the information that we give to our doctor, but we will help him or her to plan our treatment. .

Ask Questions.

If you do not understand what your doctor is saying, do not be embarrassed to ask me to explain again or use simpler term, to speak more slowly, please ask him where to get more information about their illness. You have to understand and comprehend everything your doctor is explaining.

Take notes

It is very important to follow all your doctor's .. so I have to remember all that he said, is why a suggestion is to take a notebook and write down everything that the doctor is saying, it is possible and easier for you is that someone else can go with you to to help you take notes for you, so you are sure to follow all recommendations of your doctor.