Health History Timeline
Please tell me your story. I can't find the answer to your health puzzle without YOU! Every symptom started with a story. If your symptoms are chronic (>6 months), the beginning of your symptoms could have been literally at birth. So please go back as far as you can with your story. Here are some helpful things to include in your story.
For now go back 2 yrs to the last date you felt well.
Key things to trigger your memory:
- Poor dental work can also lead to adrenal exhaustion/hypoadrenia. If you have had root canals, amalgam fillings, gum infections, abscesses, teeth pulled or other dental work, after which you noticed your health sliding within 6-12 months, or if there were complications from dental work that seemed to persist, it is vital that you list these. The mouth is an extremely important, but often unrecognized, factor in your overall health -- in some cases, it has been the pivotal key to health.
- Remember, even if you do not see any connection between these events and the symptoms you are experiencing now, write them down.
- There may be ongoing stressors that fall outside the 2-year time frame. For example, having a poor diet or little exercise for years prior to an illness or other specific event can precipitate your adrenal fatigue. Write these down in Other Incidents.
- If you cannot remember a specific date, please put the year, at least, and fill the Month and Day sections with "00".
- If you run out of room in any section, there is an Overflow text box at the bottom for you to add any more incidents or further explain an incident listed in a previous section.
- Make sure you read and complete Part 2 of this Form before hitting submit.
- Read Understanding Your Timeline (located at the bottom of the page) before submitting this form.
Understanding Your Timeline
Now look at the items you marked with an asterisk. These events are likely to be significant in your health puzzle. The events before it probably helped precipitate it and the events afterward helped intensify it.
Having the knowledge of how your symptoms began is often valuable in your treatment plan and is psychologically gratifying. It takes away the impression that you were walking along one day and your symptoms fell out of the sky and hit you. Instead, it allows you to see that your symptoms had an origin and that you can identify the probably source. This immediately places you in a more powerful position.
Credits
This Timeline and corresponding instructions were borrowed from James L. Wilson's Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome.
