How to make your appointment with the Movement Disorders Specialist more productive
Take along a list of your Parkinson medications as in the following table
Drug |
Strength |
dose per day |
any changes |
Sinemet CR |
200/50 |
4 tablets |
no |
Permax |
1 mg |
2 tablets |
no |
Permax |
.25 mg |
2 tblets |
added sept /99 |
Also take a list of an non-Parkinson medications
Drug |
stength |
dose per day |
any changes |
Imovane |
7.5 mg |
1 tablet |
stopped Sept 99 |
Also take a list of vitamans, herbals, and any complementary or altenative therapies
Item |
strength |
frequency |
changes |
multi vitamens |
Centrum select, 50+ |
1 daiily |
nil |
vitaman C |
Jameson 1000 mg |
1 daily |
nil |
Oil of evening Primrose |
1000 mg |
1 daily |
stopped Oct 99 |
List any other physicians you are seeing, together with a consent for your MDS to consult the other doctors
Ask every physician whom you see for a copy of his/her reporting letter or file note. Also get copies of any X-rays, CAT, MRI or PET scans. These are to better inform you and to show your MDS should (s)he wish to see them. A patient with this sort of documentation is treated seriously by doctors because you wouldn’t have gone to all this trouble if you weren’t.
Ask about any upcoming clinical trials
Ask any questions about your condition, having first taken the time to write them down.
Give your MDS and/or his Clinical Nurse Specialist/ Nurse Practictioner a copy of this information sheet.