Hopefully this tip can really help someone, please take this advice or suggest to friends and family if you feel it could really assist them
ID: Twitter thread by ashley fairbanks @/ziibiing reading
The number one best tip I have for anyone dealing with chronic illness is to make your health binder.
Iâm waiting in the lobby at urgent care, and I swear, even when the intake nurses see it, they treat me so differently.
In my binder I have all my current prescriptions, a log of my hospital visits, and treatments. I also have the names of my doctors and specialists and my blood work. Being able to reference an official looking thing has really seemed to help from my concerns being dismissed.
I no longer feel like I get dismissed as drug-seeking. It feels easier to get the medications I know work, or talk through other treatment plans that are informed by my history.
Itâs such a gift not to have to explain everything when I am in the middle of a debilitating migraine. /End ID
I saw this post fairly soon before my most recent appointment with a new-to-me health care provider, so I made me a Google doc and brought my tablet to the appointment, and holy shit the difference is night and day























