Q What should I prepare for my first Korean medicine clinic visit to get more accurate treatment?
A Bringing the hearing-test report from the ENT clinic, the names of your prescribed medicines, and the date of onset and its course makes pattern identification and the treatment plan more precise. Also note in advance whether you have tinnitus and whether dizziness is present.
Detailed Answer
Here are things that are good to prepare before a first Korean medicine clinic visit for sudden hearing loss. Bringing your recent hearing-test report (pure-tone audiometry, speech audiometry), the list of prescribed medicines such as steroids and vasodilators, the date of onset and the course of symptoms (worsening, improving, or stable), the presence and characteristics of tinnitus (pitch, one ear or both), and the presence and pattern of dizziness raises the accuracy of pattern identification.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
Dongjedang composes prescriptions differently depending on whether the same sudden hearing loss is mainly driven by Kidney deficiency (sin-heo), mainly by blood stasis (eo-hyeol), or entangled with Liver fire (gan-hwa). If you note in advance the pitch of the tinnitus, how symptoms change with emotional stimulation, and whether they worsen with fatigue, this distinction becomes much faster and more accurate. The better-prepared the first visit, the more precisely the recovery plan can be set.
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