Hypoxia and Medicine

What questions should I ask a new Dr?

I am being sent to an internal medicine specialist due to my high cholesterol. I have been on Lopid since December and have been eating a low cholesterol diet but when I went and had a recheck my cholesterol had gone up significantly. I never know what I need to ask a Dr. I have many medical issues such as; depression, fibromyalgia, anxiety attacks, stress/migraine headaches, mitral valve prolapse, insomnia, smoker who is currently trying to quit, I am overweight, and have extremely high cholesterol. I am on many medications. My Dr. said she will be faxing my information to the Dr. but I'm not sure if she is only faxing the blood test results or all of my medical information. I am planning on writing down all of my medication and dosage information just in case but I don't know what I need to ask the Dr. I am wanting to lose weight but with my fibromyalgia exercise is very difficult and very painful. I am worried due to my mitral valve prolapse combined with the high cholesterol. Both of my parents passed away from heart disease when I was a teenager and I have 2 kids so I am very scared that they will have to go through the same thing as I did. One problem is that I don't have a true family medical history because I was adopted by my paternal grandparents (they were the ones who died) and I have no contact with my biological mother, I have only met her a couple of times and have no idea how to contact her to get the information. So after all of that information does anyone know what questions I should ask to make sure I get the most out of the Dr. visit and to make sure any treatment will not harm me or make other conditions worse. I am a 36 year old female who is 5'3" and weighs 193 lbs. in case that information may be relevant.

Public Comments

1. an internal medicine doc is nogt a specialist--it is a primary care physician- what can this doc do that the one that referred you can't