Let's Talk Chronic Disease‪!‬ Timothy Ryschon, MD

* Extra body weight increases your chances of: heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

* On top of these scary issues, medication, hospital and doctor costs are higher if you are overweight or obese.

* Good News! Small changes in your weight can pay off big in reducing your blood pressure, blood sugar, and cancer risk!

* Wellivery is focused on getting weight changed in a direction of life-long better health!

Urinary Tract Symptoms:

*Dysurina

*Urgency

*Frequency

Early treatment with antibiotics prevents worse symptoms and serious complications including kidney damage and blood infection.

*Wellivery provides $50 Online Doctor Appointments to get your antibiotic sent electronically to the pharmacy of your choice.

* Cigarette smoking is the most powerful risk you can control.

* Quitting isn't easy and usually takes several tries.

*. The benefit for preventing heart attacks and cancer is huge.

*. Wellivery will help you get there by prescribing medication that will help control your craving to smoke and withdrawal symptoms.

Quality chronic disease care depends on self-management by patients.

A large part of my role as your physician is teaching you these self-management skills.

Crucial to these skills are techniques you will use to assess:

Your Symptoms

Your Chronic Disease Status

We will discuss your self-assessments by phone rather than in-person.

These phone visits and your frequent use of the Wellivery website are designed to keep your chronic disease controlled while avoiding illness exposure and the inconvenience of travel and waiting rooms

*Gout is a type of arthritis affecting a small number of joints.

*Joint pain, swelling and redness, usually starting at night, are the main symptoms.

*The joints involved are usually in the fingers, toes, wrists, and knees.

*The pain is caused by uric acid crystals forming in the joint.

*This occurs because your body is not removing uric acid from the bloodstream at a normal rate.

*Special Medication can be used to decrease your uric acid blood level.

*These medicines prevent the pain attacks of gout!

* Chronic Disease is Common

* Chronic Disease is Often Preventable.

* Early Detection of Chronic Disease Means Regular Screening

* Control of Chronic Disease gives the best Quality of Life!