I have put together some Pointers to help you get the most of your appointments whether “initial” or “follow-ups” with your Natural Health Practitioner or even your regular M.D., though some pointers are really only pertinent to a Natural Health Practitioner unless your M.D. prescribes natural remedies for your health problems.
1. Bring a food diary in showing what you ate for the last 10 days, include all meals & snacks and if you noticed if you felt any different eating certain foods or avoiding certain foods.
2. Bring your current supplements that you are taking along with any prescription medications especially to your first appointment. You can then just bring anything new that you added in to your follow-up appointments.
3. Bring in your most recent, even if it was 2 years prior, blood work & any other scans or medical diagnostic tests that you have had done to your initial appointment as well as any current results to your follow-up appointments as you get the tests done. Sometimes it is easier to scan them to your practitioner before you get there so that they can have a look at them right before they see you.
4. Make sure you bring in a diary of your supplements or however you kept track of the supplements you took and if you noticed that you felt better or not after running out of them. Ie. Sometimes it is easier to notice if something is helping if you run out of the supplement first and then evaluate how you feel. If you feel worse after running out of a supplement there may be a correlation, but the Practitioner can determine this at the appointment.