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* Extra body weight increases your chances of: heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. * On top of these scary issues, medication, hospital and doctor costs are higher if you are overweight or obese. * Good News! Small changes in your weight can pay off big in reducing your blood pressure, blood sugar, and cancer risk! * Wellivery is focused on getting weight changed in a direction of life-long better health!

Urinary Tract Symptoms: *Dysurina *Urgency *Frequency Early treatment with antibiotics prevents worse symptoms and serious complications including kidney damage and blood infection. *Wellivery provides $50 Online Doctor Appointments to get your antibiotic sent electronically to the pharmacy of your choice.

* Cigarette smoking is the most powerful risk you can control. * Quitting isn't easy and usually takes several tries. *. The benefit for preventing heart attacks and cancer is huge. *. Wellivery will help you get there by prescribing medication that will help control your craving to smoke and withdrawal symptoms.

Quality chronic disease care depends on self-management by patients. A large part of my role as your physician is teaching you these self-management skills. Crucial to these skills are techniques you will use to assess: Your Symptoms Your Chronic Disease Status We will discuss your self-assessments by phone rather than in-person. These phone visits and your frequent use of the Wellivery website are designed to keep your chronic disease controlled while avoiding illness exposure and the inconvenience of travel and waiting rooms

*Gout is a type of arthritis affecting a small number of joints. *Joint pain, swelling and redness, usually starting at night, are the main symptoms. *The joints involved are usually in the fingers, toes, wrists, and knees. *The pain is caused by uric acid crystals forming in the joint. *This occurs because your body is not removing uric acid from the bloodstream at a normal rate. *Special Medication can be used to decrease your uric acid blood level. *These medicines prevent the pain attacks of gout!

* Chronic Disease is Common * Chronic Disease is Often Preventable. * Early Detection of Chronic Disease Means Regular Screening * Control of Chronic Disease gives the best Quality of Life!

* Acne is common * Mild Acne is easily managed with topical creams * Moderate and Severe Acne require a more complicated treatment plan * Prescription medication provides a powerful approach to getting acne controlled.

*  Diabetes means your body is struggling to keep your blood sugar normal. *  There are two types of diabetes: Typle 1 and Type 2. *  If you have been diagnosed with either, careful attention to your food intake and prescribed medicine is the most important priority. *  Your risk for Type 2 diabetes can be changed by focusing on food intake, weight control, and physical activity. *  Wellivery can help you focus on these risk factors by providing affordable access to your doctor.

* Lifestyle Risk Factors - include: Too much carbohydrate in your meals, To much body weight, Low physical activity level, Cigarette smoke exposure, and Eventually, your age.? * The risk factors interact with your genetics to set you up for chronic diseases like: Heart disease Cancer Diabetes * We can’t change your genetics. * You can change your risk factors though and I can help!

Affordability is Important for routine medical care and disease prevention! * The cost of doctor visits can be a barrier: * Many costs of chronic disease care can exceed what you can afford. These include: * The cost of medication. * The cost of doctor visits * The cost diagnostic laboratory testing.

* Electronic prescriptions mean: ..More accuracy in the order, ..More convenience for you, ..No paper to lose, and ..It’s FAST! * Wellivery sends all orders for prescription medication to the pharmacy of your choice! Electronically!

What is Wellivery and why do you need it? * Wellivery.com is Dr. Tim Ryschon’s online medicine clinic * Wellivery is designed to be affordable, convenient, and reliable. * Wellivery follows national quality standards * Wellivery uses your phone to make your care convenient and engaging