A management plan: Stage 1
This section includes:
- Looking at my symptoms and problems
- How they affect my life?
- What I would like improved?
Symptoms and problems
It is important to look at all areas of your life including:
- Vertigo, tinnitus and hearing loss
- Walking out alone
- Not sleeping due to tinnitus
- Hearing problems at work
- Driving the car
- Weepy, depressed
- Money
- Relationships
How they affect your life
This may include:
- Limiting social contact
- Stopped hobbies—walking, golf, pub
- Isolated, introverted
- Poor performance at work
- Marriage problems
What would you like improved?
- Vertigo—control/confidence/coping
- Hearing—hearing aids and other aids
- Communication—family, friends and work
- Tinnitus—new treatment?
- Balance and walking alone and in the dark
- Everything!
Talk about what you have written with your partner or good friend and try to put them in order of importance, then move on to stage 2.