Your personal treatment history

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The next few pages include charts to record important information about your own treatment and treatment history.

These have been taken from the i-Base Treatment Passport which is available free from i-Base. If you'd like a copy please call 020 7407 8488 or order online.

• CD4 and viral load results.
• Antiretroviral treatment history.
• Other infections and illnesses.
• Side effect and allergies.
• Immunisation record.
• Trials and studies.
• Resistance tests.

Why keep a treatment history?

Any treatment choice for your future care is closely linked to your previous treatment history.

Keeping a short record of your treatment history can help in many ways.

• It can help you understand your health and treatment.
• It can help if your doctor changes at your clinic.
• It can help if you speak to other healthcare workers or to a treatment phoneline for advice.
• It can help if you ever change hospitals or clinics, or if you want a second opinion, when on holiday or abroad, or if you move to another country.

This includes results from blood tests like the CD4 count, viral load and resistance tests, as well as the history of drugs you have used and your reasons for changing them. As treatment improves you could need this record for 20 years or more – and whether new treatments work may depend on previous treatment.

This record is important. If you change clinic, you should ask for your medical records to be forwarded, but this does not always happen – make sure that you have a record of your GUM or clinic number.

These pages will help provide a useful record is all these situations.

Your doctor can provide you with details to help fill in these pages but it does not replace your medical notes. All patients have the right to see their medical records and to make photocopies from them.

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This is the web edition of the i-Base guide Introduction to combination therapy. This guide is available in UK clinics. You can order free printed copies or download a PDF version (513 Kb). Translations. Authors and credits. Glossary. Full section index.

Decisions relating to your treatment should always be taken in consultation with your doctor. Information in this guide is intended to support those discussions.