- Describe your topic.
- Describe why this topic is important.
- Temporal arteritis: I may have it. I have all the symptoms in in my vision and in my eyes. I have my family doctor who I told him about the pain and he came up with the thought. However, the two blood test that are recommended do not confirm, but the data says to try the tests tests again and again, However the data also says start the treatment before you loose your eye site. You can do an artery biopsy but do not wait for it, start the treatment.
- Tell us why you are suggesting this topic.
- I have a regular eye doctor, I have a retina doctor, I have a cornea doctor, I have a glaucoma doctor. I just called my artery doctor (who is not in the office the next few days), I may have a light case of inflammation of the artery to the eye portion of the brain and may have had it for a long time, yet the tests are not good enough to identify while the problem is bad enough to cause a lot of problems, any one of which can take my eye site without immediate treatment. I am using Prednisone. 4 for 3 days, 3 for 3 days, 2 for 3 days, 1 for 3 days. Will that cure. The data says maybe or maybe you will need the 1/day for years. Yet I can not determine if I have it or had it..
- Target Date.
- Describe what you are doing currently and what you are hoping will change because of a new evidence report.
- see above
- How will you or your group use the information from a new evidence report?
- See above. i am a 87 year old retired architect. I identify architectuaral problems and solve them or get specialist engineers to solve them. The human body is very much like a piece of architecture but I am out of my field. it is my gress there is a lot of specialty doctors working on symptoms and not the problem. it was the general family dactor who can recognize but does not have the test or treatment to know what is correct. He is about as old as I am and has the experience to identify problems that the collective medical klowledge has yet to confirm.
- How would you or your group plan to disseminate information from the report? Who would you plan to disseminate it to?
- I am only a paitient How are you going to address this problem?
- Do you know of organizations that could use an evidence report to change clinical practice? Are you a part of, or have you been in contact with, any organizations that might implement the research findings of an evidence report?
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