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Keep A Diary Of Your Symptoms
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Maintain a diary of the symptoms you experience each day. It's not the worst thing in the world if you skip a few days. The idea is to have a diary which is written as events occur which reflects what is going on.
Make entries on the day they describe, or within a few days.
To maximize the use of your diary as evidence of what has been happening, do not go back and change any entries.
Use adjectives and descriptions to describe both the symptoms and their impact on your work and daily life that day. For example, instead of just writing a symptom such as "Fatigue," describe it. Some appropriate descriptions are:
- "So tired after going to the doctor, I slept for three hours, and couldn't go back to work."
- "Too tired to cook; ordered food delivered."
- "Diarrhea was so bad I was in the bathroom for two hours instead of at my desk."
- "Pain kept me from concentrating so I had to redo the XYZ document because of errors."
For your convenience, we include a Symptoms Diary that you can securely store on line. You can print the diary and take it with you to doctors' appointments. There is even a graph which shows you visually how your symptoms change over time.
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