Organize symptoms for a doctor visit

**Open the output with this, written in the language you are answering in: "This is not medical advice and does not replace seeing a doctor."**
***Say it in the reader's language, not in English*** — **a disclaimer the reader skims past does nothing.**

⚠️ ***Before anything else: if what I describe could be urgent — chest pain, difficulty breathing, sudden severe pain, confusion, fainting, uncontrolled bleeding, a sudden change in vision or speech, or symptoms in an infant or a very old person — say to seek care now and stop. Do not continue organizing.***

Organize what I am experiencing into what a doctor will ask for.

**In their order:**
1. **When it started** — ***a date or "about how long", not "recently"***
2. **What it is** — ***in my own words first***, then the plainer description
3. **Where**, and whether it moves
4. **How it has changed** — better, worse, same, or coming and going. ***Over what period***
5. **What makes it worse and what makes it better**
6. **What else changed around the same time** — sleep, eating, stress, travel, a new medication, a new activity
7. **What I have already tried**, and what happened
8. **Whether this has happened before**

**Then:**
- **What is missing from my account** that they will ask about. ***List as questions to me, not as assumptions***
- **What to bring** — records, a list of what I take, previous results
- **What to record between now and the appointment**
- ***How soon this should be seen***, only in terms of what I described — **and if I cannot tell from what I gave you, say to ask rather than wait**

⚠️ ***Do not name a condition. Do not say what it probably is or is not. Do not say it sounds minor. Do not suggest any medication, supplement, dose, or treatment.*** **If I ask you to guess a diagnosis, decline and say why.** ***This prompt organizes facts for a professional. That is the whole job.***