Record your medical appointments

I think the most frustrating thing about having a chronic illness is having your symptoms flare up or you're developing a new one. So you go to your doctors and then boom, you get overstim ulated, the brain fog kicks in, and then you're stuck trying to understand all this new information that they're firing at you. And quite frankly, you just get confused. And then through all of this, you're not actually sure what the next step is. For example, I literally have a phone call appointment with my IBD nurse and literally forget half of what's been said. And having crippling health anxiety, this makes the problem ten times worse. But, there's a but. I've actually been informed about this app called Advica. Here we are. And wow, it is a game changer. So it essentially records your whole conversation with your doctor or your nurse and summarises all the key points, making it easier for you to understand. And then also what the actual next steps are. And on the topic of next steps, it gives you the resources to learn. Great, right? So like in simple terms, it gives you a link to your problem or like problems that you may be facing. And in turn, how's best to tackle it? Or you may just want a little bit more information regarding your appointment just to put your mind at ease a little bit. So, if you're facing any of the challenges that I've mentioned so far, why not give it a go? It's on Apple, it's on Android. And the best part of it all, it's completely free. None of this, it's free for a month and then you've got to pay $12.99 afterwards. You don't lose anything. If anything, it's going to make your life easier, less stressful and just overall better. In my opinion. I'm going to be trying it out. And if you do, let me know how you find it. I'll catch you later. Bye.

Good afternoon. I hope we're all well. I am on to speak about this amazing company, Advocat. So Advocat have created an app that you can use when you go to your medical appointments and it will record the whole conversation. It will also summarise it. It'll give you your keynotes. It'll give you your next steps. It also sends you links so that you can do some more research if you want. And it takes like words from the conversation. And like if I was to say to the consultant, I've got endometriosis, it would then reference an endomet riosis document to the discussion that I can then go in and do some more research. And this is what it looks like. So this is your front page. And as you can see, I've used this app three times and it gives the appointment a name. It comes up with a topic. Obviously it shows you your date. It's tried to tell me who the doctor is, but it's got the wrong names. It mustn't have picked it up quite right. So that is how your front screen looks. Then you have the actual conversation that happened. It looks like this. This is how it looks. And as you can see, you can go into detailed, simple transcripts or notes. At the very top, you can play back and listen to the whole conversation. It gives you your summarises it by giving you your reasons for appointments, your summary. Then further down, it shows you your next steps. And anything that you need to do or they need to do. And it is an amazing app and it's free. It's completely free. And everything is saved to your phone . It doesn't, it's not saved anywhere else. And it's all within your control. And I have had, since my first video that I did, I have had so many people reach out to me and tell me how impressed they are with the app. As am I, as is my husband. And he is so sceptical about these things. And I can't tell you how many times I have went back into the app and referred back to the conversations that I've had with the people in these meetings. And that's what's really good about it. You can go back and it saves all. You can go back and look at all the conversations you've had just to refresh your memory. And like I say, it's free. So it's a win-win. You'll never, ever forget. Because I know what I'm like. I take in absolutely nothing when I go into these meetings. I take in the bare minimum. And my husband probably doesn't take in that much either. So trying to piece…

Are you tired of feeling like this after your appointment? Oh my goodness. What did they say? What do I have to do again? What medication am I taking again? What did they say? I want you to call someone with me. Don't worry, girly. I got you. Have you heard of this new app called Advocat? Advocat is basically an app where you can, on your doctor's appointments, record the conversation so you never have to worry about forgetting anything again. Wait, what? That's amazing. So I never have to worry about remembering anything from a doctor's appointment again? And as long as I tell them that I'm recording, it's perfectly fine? Exactly that. It is super simple. Wow. All you do. So you click on your Advocat app and once it opened with Face ID, it will go to your profile. You fill out all of your medical information. After that, you press the record button and it will come up with what you have to do. You want to see what you've recorded. You go into appointments and there's your information. So if you've got a phone call coming through, all you have to do is just press the record button on the normal phone and then it will send it to your notes app and then you just transfer it from your notes app recordings to your Advocat app. And there you go. All of your information is stored in the Advocat app. You can never be gaslit again and you never have to worry about taking anyone again. You're welcome.

We all know being chronically ill comes with multiple doctor's appointments, seeing different consultants for different things, and it can be so hard to keep up with all the information that's said. Quite often there are important details we miss, and a normal recording doesn't break down the key points of the conversation. But I recently came across an app called Advocat, and it's completely changed how I manage my appointments. With Advocat, you can record your doctor's appointments, and the app generates a clear summary that focuses on the most important information mentioned. No more replaying long recordings and trying to figure out what actually mattered. It also pinpoints any medication mentioned and gives you information about it, plus shares helpful resources about any conditions discussed. You can set reminders for upcoming appointments so you don 't forget anything, and write down questions you want to ask beforehand, and the app will remind you during your appointments. You can even transfer full-time recordings into the app to keep a full log of all your medical conversations. I am so glad I found this app, and it's made me feel so much more confident going into appointments. And now I've got all the important information I need, and stored easy to come back to. And the best part about it is, it is completely free and always will be. If you struggle keeping track of everything like I do, I honestly couldn't recommend it more. Go and download Advocat and try it for yourself. Take the stress out of managing your appointments.

Hello everyone, welcome back to this little TikTok. My dog's barking already, it's been two seconds. Let's ignore that. Maybe. Welcome back to the TikTok. It's been a while, hair's grown a little bit. Look at this now, I've just washed it. So look at that, I'll give you a little spike up. Oh yeah, it looks good. I'm not expecting it to stay with the stem cell transplant and stuff in the future. But it is what it is, it's growing at the minute and it's fantastic. Anyway, I'm here for an update. I need to stop yapping on. I'm here for an update. I'm going to speak a little bit quicker on this one for those that usually put it in two times. You don't have to put it in two times for this one. You're welcome. So a little update for you. I've just finished my fourth cycle of immunotherapy, which is what I was going to be put on before they do the next scan. My next scan is actually next week on, what day are we on today? Friday. It's on Tuesday next week. Woo, fantastic. I did have a haematology appointment on Monday, but it's been cancelled because there was no updates that they could give me until this scan. So, hopefully, fingers crossed, four rounds of immun otherapy, three months worth of immunotherapy has hopefully put me into remission. That's what we're hoping for. That's what the scan is hoping to say. And then I can go for my stem cell transplant. We don't know yet. I will update you as soon as I get those results. But as I said, we don't know. Secondly, before I carry on with any of that, I want to just do a little bit of free promotion for an app that I've been using recently. And it's, you know, the founders, the co-founders of the app approached me and asked me to test it out. And it's something called Advocat. It's just here. Little square box. Hello. There we go. It's called Advocat. And what they do is you can, for people like myself and other people with like chronic illnesses, cancer, any type of illness or anything, you can document your appointments on it. So I'm very forgetful. I get my mum to come to all my appointments because I don't remember anything. Okay. And with Advocat, what I do, I put, let's say my mum can't come to one appointment. Me and my mum sit there. Advocat, I've got the appointments in a list, future appointments, past appointments. And within that appointment that I put down, not only can you write the name of the doctor…

So I had my radiotherapy appointment on Monday, which all went really well. I've got my planning scan this coming Tuesday, and then hopefully I'll start radiotherapy two weeks after that, which means I might miss my holiday, but we'll see. I know, look at all my hair growing back. It's crazy. It's grown so much, and I've got little stubbly eyelashes, and even eyebrow hairs. I forgot about all the hair maintenance that a swimmer have to do. My eye is looking very lazy. Not sure what that's about. But yeah, all really positive news. I wanted to talk about an app called Advoca, so I'm going to put a link to it in the spiel below this. But if you have hospital appointments or doctor's appointments, it's really worth having or looking at. It's made by NHS doctors, and it's GDPR approved, and I think it was great and really helpful for me.

A little tip, did you know you can record your conversations with your GPs and specialists? Well, you can. I used to hide doing it because I didn't know I could. And then when I knew I could, I just said, do you mind me recording these conversations? Because sometimes they're like half an hour, an hour, and you don't always remember everything that was discussed. So I normally write myself a list of things that I want to ask and then record the conversations. So when I was contacted a couple of months ago by a company called Advocor, who created an app, which is similar to what the GPs and specialists are using themselves, which basically records the conversations with you in your appointment and then summar ise that information. And then they normally use that to send you a letter to say, this is what we discussed. It's very similar to that, but in an app form that you can use. So you can say, are we okay to record this conversation? And then you just press record and it records it. And what happens at the end, it provides a transcript. And then it also provides a summary. So you don't have to listen to the whole conversation again. Like I used to have to, to find like little snippets of information, like that you want to remember or tell somebody about that was discussed. So you can also put in your questions and it will remind you of your questions when you're recording. You can also set up the appointment. So say who your doctor is and say when the appointment is and it will send you a reminder, which is really good. And then it will say record on the app, which is advocate or advoca, however you want to say it. But I think it's advocate because it's like an advocate for you. So you can opt in to the research as well. So if companies want to reach out to advoca and say, look, we're doing a study or we're going to be looking at creating a medication for people with endometriosis. Can we use your anonymized, anonymous information to, to, to create those, that research and those case studies. So you can opt out of that if you want to. A little off reader. But yeah, so I found it a really useful app. They are in the early stages created by two doctors and they're looking to develop it a little bit further. So they are thinking about including options to say what medications you're on and then also to say what your symptoms are as well. So basically it'll be…

Hey everyone, I just wanted to get you onto this little app that I've used today. So it's called Advocat, it's called the Advocat app and it 's by Dr Michael and he reached out and said would you just use it at one of your appointments and see what you think. I used it today and honestly I feel like it's what I've been missing. So I am sick to death of, because I go to three different hospitals across three different trusts and they don't speak to each other, they can't access each other. So one doctor will say one thing and then someone else will say something else and I'm stuck in the middle and I am trying to relay what they've said and I've forgotten and it's a lot. But this app records, so you just tell them, you know, I'm recording, is that okay? And then it literally is like a microphone recorder but then at the end it then uploads your recording and transcribes it for you and it gives you a breakdown of what you said, what they said, it then gives you a simple version or a detailed version, it gives you links at the bottom if you know you're not sure what someone's been like. For mine I was talking about biopsy and and it was like, it sent me a link to Macmillan and then the cancer patient. Honestly, it was actually unreal and I feel like it's something I really needed because of so many miscommunications and I think like last time I had my appointment they told me I was having a PET scan and then they booked me in for a biopsy and when I challenged this they said oh we've got no record of it. I've now got the record of what's being said so it can't be challenged and when I go to my next appointment in a different hospital in a different trust who can't access the letter from my surgeon today I've got that I've got the whole breakdown of it so there is no questioning but I just think if you're someone who likes to keep track but you forget if you're going on your own you don't always take it in or if you're someone who just likes to have the information that like me I think it's absolutely incredible so I'm going to put it on to you at the end and see what you think.

TikTok caption: Day 2 of the sleep study. Used the Advoca app to help me record my appointment as I never remember what we speak about and it was so helpful. My consultant was more than happy for me to record it too.

So today I had an online appointment with a phyrologist to do with the phyrology of pain. It's through a London clinic and yeah it's another step to try and sort out phonic pain issues although not few of them. So it was supposed to be through a video call through their clinic but obviously due to heat wave and she wasn't in her clinic and didn't have access to my notes or to the system so she phoned me up. I took the phone call because I thought she was late for the appointment as I was in the waiting room so I thought okay I'll take the phone call in case it's for her and it was. And she explained the situation and said that she couldn't do the on my meeting I just didn't have access to everything. Could it be done on the phone? I thought first I was like oh I can't do that . And I went to a bit of a room and then I explained that I can't do appointments over a phone like that. I made my personal speech and I knew it was actually quite an involved appointment. I knew there were barriers and I couldn't do that at the moment. I explained everything to her and said it needed to be done as an online meeting for the teams or whatever and I said oh okay. I met surveyed but she was in September and I was like hmmm . So this is how about I did it through zoom. I just need to email. I was like oh I've got that on my speech app. However on my speech app it kept paying too fast. I said is there any way you can slow that down? So I said no but maybe we can work together for this. So behind the days I spoke very slowly and we worked around it anyway. And we did a bit of guesswork. She was very nice and managed to sort it. And we did our appointment through zoom. And I asked her permission to record it using the Avacart app. I explained my reasons behind it. It would help me with remembering everything. It would help explain everything better. And she was absolutely fine. And thanked me for asking her permission before doing it. So that was all good. So I've got to use it for the first time. Because it was not on the normal system we could only do a partial meeting. So I was like to have to have a whole run down of my health history with Project Prime. And my anxiety around that. So it was a whistle top store. A tour even. So I've had to have a whole lot of everything. And loved quite a lot. And about all the barriers I've encountered. When it came to pain. And…