Notes from the clinic
Plain explanations of what a consultation involves and what to expect, so you arrive knowing how the visit will go.
Before you accept a steroid injection or a strong painkiller
Both work quickly, which is exactly why they are handed out so freely. Here are the questions worth asking before you agree to one.
Mustard oil, black tea, and water after meals
The questions asked in every consultation, usually towards the end, usually prefaced with “someone told me”. Here is where the clinic actually stands.
Burning feet and numb hands: nerve damage in diabetes
Tingling, burning or numbness in the feet is not a minor complaint of old age. In diabetes it is a signal, and the feet need checking for a reason.
Constipation and bloating: the complaints people stop mentioning
Both get lived with for years and dismissed as normal. Neither is, and both say something useful about how the system is running.
Weight that will not move
Eating less and moving more, for months, with nothing to show for it. Usually that is not a failure of will — it is a metabolism that has adjusted.
Diabetes and your kidneys: the damage you cannot feel
Kidney function can fall a long way before anything hurts. The tests that catch it early are cheap, quick, and routinely not done.
High blood pressure, and what it does while you feel fine
It produces almost no symptoms until it has already caused damage. That is the entire problem with it, and the entire reason to measure.
Thyroid: when tiredness is not just tiredness
Exhausted, gaining weight, cold, losing hair, and told the reports are normal. What the thyroid tests actually measure, and what to ask for.
Acidity, H. pylori, and the stomach that will not settle
Years of antacids for a problem nobody has tested for. What the tests are, when they are worth doing, and what the warning signs look like.
What your gut has to do with your blood sugar
Acidity, bloating and an unpredictable bowel are usually treated as their own problem. In someone whose sugar will not settle, they often are not.
Fatty liver: the finding nobody was looking for
It usually turns up on an ultrasound ordered for something else, and is usually dismissed as nothing. It is rarely nothing.
Insulin resistance: the years before anyone says diabetes
Blood sugar is the last thing to go wrong, not the first. By the time a report says diabetes, the process behind it has usually been running for a decade.
Seeing an Eastern Medicine specialist in Jhang or Faisalabad
What the qualification means, what the two clinics do, which complaints suit which visit — and how to consult from another city entirely.
What a metabolic disorder specialist actually looks at
Diabetes, fatty liver, high triglycerides, stubborn weight and high blood pressure usually arrive together. Here is why, and what an assessment covers.
How to choose a doctor for diabetes in Pakistan
Seven questions worth asking before you commit to anyone — in Jhang, Faisalabad, or anywhere else. None of them is about who advertises the loudest.
Natural medicine for diabetes: what it can do, and what it cannot
An honest account of where natural treatment helps with blood sugar, where it does not, and why nobody should be promising you a cure.
Preparing for a diabetes consultation
Two weeks of readings and a shoebox of medicine boxes will tell the doctor more than an hour of questions. Here is exactly what to gather.
What the clinic treats, and what it refers on
Five areas, and the conditions that sit inside each. Worth reading before you book, so you arrive at the right kind of appointment.
Five questions worth asking before you take any herbal formulation
Whether it comes from this clinic or anywhere else, a preparation you cannot ask these five questions about is one you should not be swallowing.
Taking Eastern Medicine alongside your prescription
The most common question in the clinic, and the one where a wrong answer does real harm. The short version: you do not stop anything, and you tell both sides everything.
What Eastern Medicine is, and what it is not
Not folk remedy, not an alternative to your doctor, and not a practice stuck in the last century. Here is what it actually means for a patient.
What actually happens in a consultation
About fifty minutes, in a fixed order, ending with a plan on paper. Here is the whole thing, so nothing about the visit is a surprise.
What to bring to your first visit
The consultation starts from what is already known about your health rather than from scratch — but only if you bring the right things with you.
How an online consultation works
For patients in other cities, elsewhere in Pakistan, or overseas. Six steps, and what you need ready before the call.
More in Urdu, on video
Dr. Baloch publishes patient education in Urdu on YouTube and Facebook — what a reading actually means, what to eat, and which advice circulating on WhatsApp to ignore. If you would rather hear it than read it, start there.
A note on what you read here
Book an appointment
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