{"id":187,"date":"2023-01-01T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/ttfa\/?page_id=187"},"modified":"2023-01-13T23:48:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T23:48:17","slug":"11-how-to-report-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/4-side-effects-of-arvs\/11-how-to-report-side-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"4.11 How to report side effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is not good for anyone if side effects are allowed to continue. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Often this is because the doctor doesn&#8217;t understand the problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you want your doctor to help, you need to clearly describe\u00a0your side effects and how they affect you.<\/p>\n<p>Your doctor will need to\u00a0check for all\u00a0causes. For example, diarrhoea might be caused by food poisoning. Or a low sex drive might be related to\u00a0low testosterone levels.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"recording\">Recording side effects<\/h2>\n<p><strong>The best way record side effects is to keep a side effects diary. Be as detailed as you can. Try to do this for several weeks\u00a0and take the diary\u00a0when you next see your doctor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Include information about the following:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"often\">How often? \u2013 frequency<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>How often do you get symptoms?<\/li>\n<li>Once or twice a week? Once every day, or 5-10 times a day etc?<\/li>\n<li>Do they occur at night as well as during the day?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"long\">How long? \u2013 duration<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>How long do the symptoms last?<\/li>\n<li>If you feel sick or get headaches, do they last for 20 minutes or for 3-4 hours, or for different times?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a pattern to when they occur? Is this when you take your medications or at a regular time afterwards?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 id=\"bad\">How bad? \u2013 severity<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>How bad are the symptoms?<\/li>\n<li>Often it helps to rate them on a scale (from 1 for very minor to 10 for very severe).<\/li>\n<li>A scale is a useful tool for describing anything that involves pain.<\/li>\n<li>Recording how severe side effects are when they occur is better than recording them later.<\/li>\n<li>Have you noticed anything that helps to reduce or stop them?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All this information can really help your doctor understand how difficult the side effects are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not good for anyone if side effects are allowed to continue. Often this is because the doctor doesn&#8217;t understand the problem. If you want your doctor to help, you need to clearly describe\u00a0your side effects and how they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}