Avoid listing general symptoms like “cough”, “fever”, “sore throat’.

Tell me all about your cough.    Tell me all about your fever.     Tell me all about your throat.

Describe sensations so I know what your symptom feels like to YOU.

Use as many details as possible. Paint me a picture of your experience of suffering.

Answer all the questions.

What makes it better and worse?!

Think about it like this:

 

What does your headache n-e-e-d? Pressure? Stillness? Does it want the heat of the shower?

Do you want to lay it on something cold?

Press it with your hand?

Take a hot shower?

Those things are examples of what makes it better…

I’m sure you know what makes it worse.

Lights, noise, turning your head.