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A free guide from Vane

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Five prompts for a more useful health conversation. Keep your notes to yourself and bring them to your appointment. This page does not collect your answers.

Prepared by the Vane team. September 12, 2026.

The guide

Five prompts.

  1. What matters to you right now?

    Name two things you want to keep doing. That might be hiking, lifting, travel, intimacy, or having energy for family life.

  2. What has changed?

    Think about energy, sleep, strength, weight, hair, mood and sexual health. When did you first notice the change? Has it lasted? You can also start while feeling well.

  3. What else was happening?

    Consider changes in sleep, work, stress, food, training, alcohol, medications or supplements. Bring the context, without deciding the cause yourself.

  4. What do you already know?

    Bring your medication list, relevant medical and family history, and any measurements or lab results you already have. Ask which checks make sense for you.

  5. What would a useful next step look like?

    Ask: What could explain this? What are my options? What are the benefits, risks and costs? How will we review progress? When should I follow up?

Before you go

A plan built around you.

This guide helps you prepare for a conversation. It is not a diagnosis, a treatment plan or a medical assessment. Symptoms can have many causes, and a clinician can help work out which.

Further reading: NHS guidance on midlife symptoms and their possible causes (opens in a new tab).

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