LOCATION

Determine:

• Where is the symptom located on or in the body? Can the patient point to the pain?
  
  
• Location can also refer to where the patient is/was when the symptoms
  
  began. (This question also may be asked under Aggravating Factors.)
  

Examples:

• The headaches are always in the left front of my head.
  
  
• When my stomach hurts, I always feel it right here (points to mid-epigastrum).
  
  
• Every time I look down from more than two stories high, I get dizzy and sick to my stomach. This time, it began when I was on the top of the Washington Monument, and it hasn’t gone away yet.