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Come in with your numbers and questions ready.
General guidance to help you make the most of your visit. Not a substitute for medical advice.
Heart disease is managed with steady habits, medications, and regular check-ins. The numbers and symptoms you track between visits give your doctor a clearer picture than any single appointment can.
Track any chest discomfort, shortness of breath, palpitations, or swelling in your legs, and what you were doing when they happened. Note your home blood pressure or heart-rate readings if you take them.
Bring your full medication list with doses, plus recent test results and your questions about diet, activity, and symptoms. Note your family history and any changes since your last visit.
Expect your doctor to review your symptoms, check your blood pressure and heart, and go over your medications and recent results. Lead with your notes so your day-to-day picture is on record.
Take notes as the doctor talks, record the meeting (with their permission!) in myStoria, or add a quick voice note to myStoria as soon as possible afterward so that you are not relying on memory alone.
Before you leave the clinic, ask for copies of anything from the visit, like lab results, assessments, or referrals, and upload them to myStoria to keep your history complete. (If you aren't able to get copies, connect with Concierge and we can help you source them!)
Keep taking your medications as prescribed and tracking your symptoms and any home readings. Small, consistent changes to activity and diet tend to matter most over time.
If you notice new or worsening chest discomfort, breathlessness, or swelling, do not wait for the next visit. For chest pain that is severe or spreading, or comes with sweating or nausea, call emergency services.
myStoria keeps your symptom history, medications, and questions together, so you walk into each appointment ready and pick up cleanly at the next one. When you want guidance between visits, you can schedule a video consult in advance with a member of our team, several of whom are nurses.
This page offers general information to help you prepare for and follow up on your heart disease appointment. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have severe or spreading chest pain, especially with sweating, nausea, or shortness of breath, call emergency services. myStoria video consults are scheduled in advance.
