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I feel it is both the doctor and the patient job to ask questions about a certain medication! Nobody knows my body better than I! After going through Stage IV colon cancer, falling two times resulting in TBI I understand how my body feels! But the doctor if they have been seeing me for several years they should have in their notes how I react to medication. It's the same with getting an IV! It's up to me to tell the Tech I have "ROLLING VIENS!" TO HELP THEM OUT!
Most charts have how we react to certain drugs.
But as for the doctor if there are certain side effects that are more common he should say so! As a Babby Boomer we were taught never question the doctor. As we have gotten older we have learned to be our own Advocate!
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RB
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You are so right. My doctor retired 10 years ago and I found that this new doctor has no information on the side effects I have to so many fibromyalgia meds they have given to me over 40 years of trying new meds. I can take none of them and they all end up affecting my vision. My new doctor says I have to tell him how they affect me. I have tried so many drugs it is impossible to remember. I had thought that my doctor had all that information in the chart but the office staff are responsible for putting it there and did not.
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Even with genetic testing first and all the rx listed with side effects in my chart and me telling them each visit each rx … the drs say “ you don’t really know till you try the rx, it reacts differently with each person”