How do I explain my medication and dose to a new doctor in English?
Use one three-part sentence every time: name, strength, schedule. I take levothyroxine, 100 micrograms, one tablet every morning before breakfast. Then add what you do when you forget a dose and what you have stopped taking, because a doctor who assumes perfect adherence will misread the next test.
Use one three-part sentence every time: name, strength, schedule. I take levothyroxine, 100 micrograms, one tablet every morning before breakfast. Then add what you do when you forget a dose and what you have stopped taking, because a doctor who assumes perfect adherence will misread the next test.
Read the strength aloud the way a pharmacist would: mcg on a label means micrograms, mg means milligrams, and one milligram is a thousand micrograms, so the two are never interchangeable. If the box and the label disagree, or the pharmacy has swapped in a different brand, say which tablet you actually swallow rather than which one the newest prescription names.
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