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Rheumatology appointment checklist

A rheumatology review is short and the gaps between them are long. This page is what you bring into the room: your questions at the top, the period since the last review condensed underneath.

It follows the structure in the rheumatology appointment guide, which explains each section.

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How to use it

  1. Print it, or fill it in on screen a day or two before the appointment.
  2. Write your two or three most important questions first. Everything else supports them.
  3. Use your diary or app to fill in the summary for the whole period, not the last fortnight.
  4. In the room, lead with the questions and offer the rest as detail.
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Appointment

Date
Clinician / clinic
Period covered (since last review)

My questions, in priority order

Symptom summary for the period

Overall direction · Better / worse / same — since roughly when?
Morning stiffness: typical duration · minutes
Morning stiffness: worst duration · minutes
Spinal pain: typical / worst (0–10)
Other joint pain: typical / worst (0–10), which joints
Fatigue: typical (0–10)
Sleep: typical hours, night waking
Flares: number, dates, durations
BASDAI scores by date, if tracked

Medication as actually taken

Regular medication and doses
As-needed medication: what, how often
Missed or late doses
Changes since last review, and dates
Anything noticed after a change
Over-the-counter medicines and supplements

New symptoms outside the spine (tick and add dates)

  • Eyes: pain, redness, light sensitivity
  • Gut: change in bowel habit, pain
  • Skin: rash, psoriasis
  • Other joints: swelling, pain
  • Heels or chest wall pain
  • Other

What changed in my life that might be relevant · Work, training, sleep, illness, injury, stress

Notes from the appointment · What was decided, what it was based on, what to watch for, when to come back

This template is for recording, not for diagnosis or treatment decisions. Bring it to your clinician; do not change medication on the basis of what it shows.

The same structure, without the paper

HAVYT’s daily check-in records the columns above — stiffness, pain by region, fatigue, sleep, flare, medication, activity — in under a minute, charts them over time, and turns any period into a report for an appointment. Free to start on iPhone.

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