Guide

How do I show my neurologist my symptoms between visits?

Three kinds of record

• Passive - tremor and dyskinesia through the day, without you doing anything, if you wear an Apple Watch.
• Logged - doses, seventeen non-motor symptoms rated None to Severe, meals and therapies. A good day is recorded too, so the history is not made only of bad ones.
• Tested - movement checks you choose to do, matched to the movements a neurologist examines by hand, including slowness, which a watch cannot measure.

Why the period matters

Every part of the report says which days it draws on. A finding resting on three weeks reads differently from one resting on four months, and the report shows both rather than blending them.

Before the appointment

Make the report a day or two ahead, read it yourself, and mark the one or two things you most want to ask about.

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Kampa is a personal tracking tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose, treat or give medical advice, and it never suggests a change to your medication.