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Get personalized care by video chat, or text your provider anytime to get refills, clarify health goals, and ask questions. Get diagnosis, prescriptions, lab tests, referrals, treatment plan with low out of pocket cost.
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Developing a follow-up care plan
You and your Provider will work together to develop a personalized follow-up care plan. This plan will serve as a guide for monitoring your health for the months and years that follow. Your care plan may include regular physical examinations and medical tests. This plan is usually based on medical guidelines for a specific diagnosis. Your provider will also consider your individual needs and preferences.
Participating in follow-up care helps many patients feel in control as they transition back into their everyday lives. Keeping a medical support system in place is essential for maintaining physical and emotional health.
What issues should we cover?
Self management. Your glycosuria may indicate suboptimal glucose control. Your understanding of diabetes, diabetes medication and strategies for managing diabetes need to be explored. Appropriate diet and lifestyle measures such as regular physical activity are the cornerstones of good diabetic control. Assessing these may help to identify motivational problems and highlight gaps in understanding.
Cardiovascular risk factors and complications. 80% of people with diabetes will die from cardiovascular disease. Seek symptoms and signs that suggest the presence of coronary heart and peripheral vascular disease. The management needs to be tailored to the individual. A younger person with diabetes will need stringent control of risk factors. Erectile dysfunction may be the first indicator of cardiovascular disease.
Medication. Your concordance with medication and any side effects should be explored. Tight glucose control is important since the duration of diabetes and level of glycaemic control correlate with the risk of microvascular complications including retinopathy, nephropathy and neuropathy.
Psychosocial issues. As with any long-term disease, it is important to ask about the patient’s coping with the illness and mood with a view to screening for depression.
The Importance of Tracking Your Medication
Keep track of and take your medication as prescribed in order to achieve stability and progress with mental illness.
Many people who suffer from major mental illness experience challenges with taking their medication. As diabetes health practitioners, we realize that it’s not as easy as it sounds and want to spread some awareness to our patients, their loved ones, and the community at large.
The Pitfalls of Discontinuing Medication. Today, we’d like to revisit that topic and add to it in terms of how to be proactive in tracking your medication throughout the month.
Things You Should Track With Your Medication
Keep a calendar, marking your appointments and refill dates. When taking a new medication, use the calendar as a tool to record any side effects you experience and record how the medication is working in general. During your follow-up appointments, bring the calendar so that you have a written record to discuss the ups and downs of the medication with your Provider.
Know the adverse side effects of your medications. Many medications have serious side effects that only a small percentage of those who take them experience, however, they are health hazards worth giving your Provider a call ASAP.
Use a pill box if you have multiple medications that need to be taken at different times during the day. This can also help you remember whether certain medications need to be taken with food.
Don’t overcompensate with more medication when you feel bad. Although it may seem like a logical solution: “Meds make me feel good, so when I feel bad I should just take more of them.” More is not necessarily better in this case because they may not work that way. You also run the risk of overdose by increasing medication levels to the point of toxicity.
Additionally, if you take more meds when you’re not feeling well, then you may not be able to get an earlier refill for those days after you run out.
Count your pills. If you’ve forgotten whether you took your medication, count your pills and cross check that with how many days you have until your refill.
These are all habits which you can practice, and they’re important because it puts you in control. Ultimately, our aim at Rapalo Med is to put the power in your hands and work together with you. You’re not a bystander in the process because we work hard to put you in the center.
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