What context do you carry about your health that no hospital record ever has?
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Hospital records tell you (but mostly clinicians/insurers) what happened in a clinic. They don't tell anyone that that prescribed antibiotic didn't work, how your mental health affected your symptoms and the timeline of how it all escalated, or that you skipped that medication because the side effects made you unable to work. They don't tell you what your baseline actually is/was, or what your symptoms look like at 3am versus 3pm, or that the dose that works for most people doesn't work for you. This is the context that only you have. What's yours? What do you know about your own health that no system has ever captured? And what would change if you could effortlessly share it with you clinician?
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My sleep. 100%. It impacts so much of my life, and I find it's such a good indicator for my anxiety and stress levels but only after the fact. If I could communicate the patterns, and show what life events do and don't trigger those patterns, that would help us narrow down so many potential causes for my other problems.