Message #6161

[midwif]

Ron,

That said, I would be curious to hear of your symptoms.  When does it hurt, how severe is the pain on a scale of 1-10, what is the location and quality of the pain, dull, burning, aching etc, does it start in the right lower abdomen and shoot into the groin for example, what exacerbates the pain, what makes it better, does it come a a particular time of day etc.  If you feel it is from an injury, what happened to the best that you can guess.  If you fell for example, how did you fall, how did you land etc.  Once you type out your detailed answer, do yourself a favor and print it out and take it with you to your next MD visit.  It may help a lot in sorting things out.  A good history is 75% of the work in discovering these things.

I hope this helps,
Perry

Excellent advice.

Lynn