Chronic Illness on Sidechat | is there a term for trying a low risk treatment instead of getting formal testing and diagnosis first? like instead of doing a test you try the treatment and see if you respond well to it. i’m wondering if there is a term for this.

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Chronic Illness 3w

is there a term for trying a low risk treatment instead of getting formal testing and diagnosis first? like instead of doing a test you try the treatment and see if you respond well to it. i’m wondering if there is a term for this.

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Anonymous 3w

for example: my dr prescribed me progesterone because i had all the symptoms of low progesterone and instead of doing the testing she let me see how i respond to the progesterone. i’m asking because i’m seeing a new dr about microscopic colitis and i’m wondering if i can just try the treatment instead of paying $3k that i don’t have for a colonoscopy and biopsy.

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