Consult Prep Checklist

What the Consult Prep Checklist does

The Consult Prep Checklist assembles the questions worth asking at a telehealth appointment about women's hormonal and metabolic health. You pick one or more of five topics — HRT (menopause or perimenopause), GLP-1 for weight, PCOS, fertility, or thyroid — and the tool shows a written-out list of questions for each topic you selected, plus a set of universal questions worth asking any provider. You can check items off as you decide which ones matter to you, and print the result to bring to the visit.

It exists because the useful part of a first hormone or weight-management consult is often the questions you did not think to ask until afterward: which lab to target, whether a formulation should be transdermal or oral, how side effects get managed, what the taper plan is, what the total cost of visits plus medication plus labs adds up to. The checklist puts those on paper before you are on the clock with a prescriber.

This is a reference sheet, not an assessment. It does not ask about your symptoms, history, or numbers, and it does not tell you what treatment you need. It hands you better questions so the conversation with a licensed clinician is more productive.

How to read your result

Treat the printed sheet as an agenda you control. The questions grouped under 'Specific to your goals' change with the topics you select; the 'Universal' block stays the same regardless. Pick the two or three questions in each group that actually apply to your situation rather than reading all of them aloud — a focused list gets better answers in a short visit.

Several questions are phrased to surface things patients commonly miss. For HRT, the tool prompts you to ask whether you fall in the window it describes as under 60 or within 10 years of menopause, and what estradiol level to target. For GLP-1, it prompts questions about eligibility by BMI and comorbidity, branded versus compounded product, prior authorization, and monitoring for gallbladder and pancreas effects. For PCOS it references the Rotterdam phenotypes and a baseline lab panel; for thyroid, a full panel including TSH, free T4, free T3, and antibodies. These are conversation starters — the clinician's answers, applied to your own history and labs, are what matter.

After the visit, the same list works as a check: if a question went unanswered, that is a specific thing to follow up on or a reason to compare other providers before committing.

What the result is based on

The output is a fixed, editorially written question bank stored directly in the tool's code. Selecting a topic simply pulls that topic's list; selecting several combines them. There is no algorithm, scoring, model, or dataset behind it — nothing you enter is analyzed, and no two people who pick the same topics get different results. The universal questions are always included.

The topic lists cover HRT, GLP-1, PCOS, fertility, and thyroid. The specifics named in the questions — lab panels, formulation choices, monitoring schedules, phenotype and window references — are the ones the authors chose as high-value prompts, not clinical instructions or thresholds you must meet. Where a question names a figure, such as the HRT age-and-timing window, it is presented as something to confirm with your clinician, not as a rule the tool applies to you.

What it cannot tell you

• It does not read your situation: it never asks your age, symptoms, medications, lab values, or history, so it cannot tell you which of its questions apply to you or flag anything as urgent.
• The question set is fixed and finite — five topics with a set list each. Conditions outside those five (for example endometriosis, low libido as a standalone concern, bone health, or contraception on its own) are not covered, and picking a topic will not generate questions tailored to your specific case.
• It gives you questions, not answers. It contains no guidance on what a 'good' response from a provider sounds like, and it cannot judge whether an answer you receive is correct or complete.
• It does not evaluate, rank, or recommend any provider, medication, or pharmacy — the checklist is provider-neutral and the same for everyone.
• References inside the questions, such as the HRT timing window or the PCOS phenotype framework, are prompts to raise with a clinician; the tool does not verify them against your records or against current guidelines, which can change.
• Nothing is saved. Your checked items and printout live only in the browser session, so there is no history and no account.