How do you tell your doctor about your pain?

  Through observation over time, physicians have generally found that patients often do not know how to describe their condition in a focused manner. Patients usually describe a lot of content is not the main point that the doctor wants, so how patients can make themselves and doctors have better communication, which has some necessary expertise. The following is an example of pain for the patient’s reference: the patient generally needs to provide information about gender, age, occupation, previous medical conditions, and other general conditions.  To describe the pain, there are several aspects: 1. the location of the pain (it is better to be specific: for example, if the headache is widespread, it is difficult to locate the headache; it is better to talk about the posterior region of the head, both sides of the head, the front, etc.).  2. Nature of pain (e.g. radiating pain, pins and needles, burning pain, colic, electric shock-like pain, soreness, swelling, wandering pain, etc.).  3. duration and pattern of pain (e.g. whether it is continuous or paroxysmal, duration of each attack, interval time, etc.).  4. Aggravating or relieving factors of pain (e.g. pain is aggravated by bending, relieved by lying down; aggravated by activity; aggravated by cold weather, etc.).  5.Symptoms accompanying the pain (e.g., fever, dizziness, difficulty seeing, nausea, etc.).  6.The treatment of pain (such as the diagnosis in other hospitals, laboratory tests and films, preferably with images, etc.).  7, preliminary an the above order to describe your pain, often the doctor will get more information, conducive to the diagnosis and assessment of the patient’s condition.