Making the Most of Your Visit

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DR. JAIN: I don’t think you can overshare. The more accurate and complete of a picture you can give me, the better care I can deliver.

My job is to put puzzles together, and sometimes it is a puzzle trying to figure out how to best adjust treatments to meet our combined treatment goals.

Coming prepared to that visit is really the best way to make sure we’re squeezing the juice out of that appointment.

Here are three ways a patient can help their rheum understand their symptoms: the symptom severity, symptom frequency, and then also helping me understand the burden of how the symptoms affect day-to-day activities.

Patients often feel like they can tough it out, or that they’re complaining or whining. That’s really far from the truth.

Patients are really the true experts in their symptoms because they’re living with those symptoms 24 hours a day.