Share your charts with your doctor
Share your charts with your doctor
Your doctor will appreciate your efforts because he can use the data you have meticulously collected to better assess which way he would like to go with treatment and monitoring.
Similarly, your charts will help him better understand progesterone, how it is all interrelated, and that all these years you weren’t imaging things. Your symptoms were very real.
By charting and gaining a confidence about your own body, the vibration level at which you deliver your information to your doctor is such that it comes across with conviction.
Even if he says it is a placebo (an imagined response) you can retort, “Well it?s a damn good placebo!” Hopefully, by this stage of your journey into improved health, you won’t feel the need to storm out of his surgery, to justify, or discount your needs. If, however, your GP fails in his duty to appreciate and respect your physical and psychological wellbeing, then perhaps it’s time to seek out a more understanding doctor.
By taking these charts to your doctor, he will be able to assess - hopefully with your active involvement - which way he’d like to go with on-going treatment and monitoring. Particularly when it comes to other medications that you may be taking which could require adjustments due to positive responses of progesterone. An example of this would be women on blood pressure tablets. Often women find they require less simply because their blood pressure has reduced after using progesterone.
This will also help him to understand progesterone, how it’s all interrelated, that progesterone is multifactorial, and that all these things you have been complaining about over the years were not imagined, nor were you thehypochondriacc that you may have been led to believe.
