Every one should have at home

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Thermometer. I guess thats one we've always mostly had.Oximeter. We all know the necessity of it. Blood Pressure machine. The occasional check never hurt and at the first sign of an issue its so essential.Liter Meter for checking your oxygen flow. If diabetic or bordering on it, a testing meter. You say but I don't actually have diabetes. Then what better tool to keep it that way. To follow the effects of foods and to monitor. Health DiaryThese are all such basic tools. They can provide information your doctor has no way to know. The doctor can only get a check for a single point in time and condition. Often he gets your temperature when you're already on tylenol so it doesn't report correctly that you had a fever. He gets your blood pressure when you came up stairs and got angry waiting 2 hours for him to see you and that was after someone nearly ran over you on the way over. Then the nurse says something that bothers you right before she checks it. He gets oximeter readings in very controlled environments. You don't live like that. And he gets diabetes readings at 8 am when you've had nothing to eat but not when you celebrated your daughter's birthday with three pieces of rich cake (they only know you ate two so we won't tell them about the third).Also, the doctor depends on you for how you feel and how it started and how you've been doing. Some sort of notes with some chronology can often help. Things we forget that give clues.