Health Issues
Most people arrive with one thing they can name and two or three they have stopped mentioning. Sleep is the one they name. Tiredness, a short fuse, a gut that has gone unreliable and a body that aches more than it used to are the ones underneath.
There is no need to arrive with it organised. Sorting out which part is which is the work of the first appointment.
Sleep and tiredness. Not sleeping, waking and staying awake, or sleeping and waking up with nothing in the tank.
Aches that have settled in. Neck, shoulders, low back — the places a body carries tension and the places that get loaded by lifting, helping and transferring someone.
Digestion. Bloating, unpredictable bowels, reflux, appetite that has dropped away.
Mood and capacity. Flat, irritable, or unable to find the energy for the things that used to be easy.
Your own health, postponed. The appointments you have not made while making someone else's. This is the most common one here and the least often said out loud.
Some of this is ours and some of it is your doctor's, and the division is not negotiable. Anything new, anything getting worse quickly, anything with weight loss, bleeding, chest pain, breathlessness or a neurological change goes to a GP first. Low mood lasting more than a fortnight goes there too.
We would rather send you across the road at the first appointment than work around something that needed a blood test. If you have been told something is "just stress" and it has not behaved like stress, that is worth another look as well.
If one of the groups above is clearly yours, start with that page. If several apply, start with sleep — it tends to be the thread that pulls the others loose.
Disclaimer: Kindly note that results for different clients may vary. The work we do is never in isolation; it is always a team effort, including that clients work on their lifestyle choices and our treatment.