Appointment question. Ten minutes is not enough for this history and I am trying to plan around that.
The phone log is the part people skip. Date, time, name, what was said, reference number.
Appeals succeed far more often than first requests, because the first review is often automated.
A clinician note carries more weight in the record than a patient request, so ask them to write it.
Ask for the amendment rather than the removal. Removal gets refused, amendment gets processed.
Has the handling changed recently for anyone else?
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately.
Following this because I am in the same place and have no idea what to ask at the appointment.
Sorry for the basic question, but how do you actually start one of these diaries?
Interdose restlessness is distinct from the original symptom and worth naming separately. Same for me with a chronic condition review, unfortunately.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that. Tolerance was my main issue with a chronic condition review too.
Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.
Reference ranges differ between labs, so comparing two reports is close to meaningless. How long have you been on a chronic condition review?
Half of what people describe as tolerance is a change in the underlying condition, and the two need different answers. Tolerance was my main issue with a chronic condition review too.
Same here.
Eight months in on a chronic condition review and it lines up.
Access to mugs should be on the clinical questionnaire.
Changing prescriber does not reset anything, and people discover that the hard way.
It gets smaller. Not easy, smaller. That distinction kept me going. Same for me with a chronic condition review, unfortunately.
The pain score conversation is thirty seconds of my life I will never get back, every time. How long have you been on a chronic condition review?
Same here.