This is the successor the the popular, award-winning, best selling, doctor recommended pain tracking app, My Pain Diary: Chronic Pain & Symptom Tracker.
This version, My Pain Diary: GOLD EDITION, strikes a delicate balance between ease-of-use and a broad feature-set. This is a truly USEFUL app, and the newest member of the My Pain Diary family, which has helped over 90,000 chronic pain sufferers better manage their pain, improve communication with their doctors, and gain insights that would be hard attain through other means.
Useful and popular features include automatic weather fetching, iCloud sync, basic medication tracking, photo attachments, graphs and PDF doctor's reports.
This app is highly customizable. Everyone tracks pain differently, and this is a framework that supports just about any tracking strategy.
Created by a chronic pain patient to track, manage, and report on chronic pain and symptoms, chronic illness, and mental health.
That means there is no big company with deep pockets supporting this project. I am just one man with a chronic pain condition, a demanding day job, and a young family to care for. I just happen to be formally trained in design, self-taught in programming, experienced at marketing and customer relations, and am a chronic pain patient myself. That's a very rare combination of traits that is hard to come by, so I'm making the most of it, and holding my own against the big players.
Enough about me, back to the app!
Features:
+ iCloud Sync Support
+ Universal App
+ Highly Customizable
+ Easy to use
+ Track unlimited conditions
+ Track multiple/unlimited times per day
+ Add past entries (change entry timestamp)
+ Edit past entries
ANATOMY OF A PAIN DIARY ENTRY
TRACKERS: Trackers can be thought of as labels or folders that categorize and differentiate your entries. These are the key to tracking more than one condition and comparing conditions to each other.
A common strategy is to name the Trackers after the diseases/conditions that you will be tracking. I.e. Migraines, Anxiety, Fibromyalgia, etc. These are just examples.
METRICS: Each entry is composed of one or more optional pieces of information called 'Metrics'. For example, two commonly used metrics are 'Pain Intensity' and 'Pain Duration'. Metrics are associated with and shared amongst your Trackers. This means that you can set it up to use different metrics for different Trackers, keeping your entry pages clean and the cognitive load low.
-- IMPORTANT EVENTS --
+ Record important events that aren't suited for a Pain Diary entry. i.e. Medical Procedures, Therapy Sessions, A slip and fall, etc.
-- HISTORY --
+ Color-Coded Calendar - Spot patterns and trends at a glance. Calendar days are colored based on the day's highest recorded Intensity.
+ Fully searchable.
+ Day View
-- GRAPHS --
+ Visualize and compare intensity over time with this interactive graph. Plot and compare up to 3 'Trackables' at once and one optional Weather Metric.
+ Email, print and share a PDF of the Graph.
-- REPORTS --
+ Create a PDF Report for your Doctors or for archival purposes. Share the Report via email and other standard methods.
+ Include Graph
+ Include Pain Scale Descriptions
+ Include Color-Coded-Calendar
+ Include Medication Log
+ Include Important Events
-- TOOLS --
+ Automatic Weather Fetching
+ Pain Scale Editor
+ Units preference - US/Imperial or XUS/Metric
Want to see the app in action? Check out the Getting Started video on my YouTube page. www.youtube.com/mypaindiary
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User Rating
3.89 out of 5
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in United Kingdom
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Great app for monitoring
It’s a great app which i was recommended to use to gather evidence for a benefits claim. However, i will continue to use it to monitor my symptoms. As someone with fibro I experience a lot of fibro fog so being able to export and share symptoms with my doctors should mean I am less likely to forget something important.
Keeps crashing
This was the best pain monitoring app available but for some time now I have been unable to open pain diary without it crashing. However, I have found that if one shuts down one’s device and powers in again one can open it. Tedious but possible. I use the history to show my GP to monitor pain control in painful genetic condition No response to appeal for support.
Katz
Just purchased this app on my iPhone and it won’t open.
Amazing
For anyone with a number of medical issues it gives you patterns accurate and helpful.
End time warrior
This app was good but after a couple of weeks it glitched and I wasn’t able to update information. I could not download it either. So I deleted then reinstalled the app and it wiped all of the history. The option to recover it didn’t work. It’s a shame because I was getting used to using it. I’m frustrated that I spent money on it though.
Good but room for improvement
Great that some parts are customisable. I have been using it for two months now and have found it useful for a general picture of day-to-day pain and symptoms. However, being able to link the location of pain with its type and severity would a great help in my case, as the pains I have vary in character not only from one day to another but during the same day. Making comments every day to explain this defeats the convenience of using the app.
Doesnt work
Shows all the sections and when u press jt it takes you back to home apps every time. Complete waste kf money and refund requested as useless
Was awesome, now useless
I’ve been using this app for a couple of years now. I loved the customisation available to the trackers. I used it to track my chronic conditions and medication usage.
Now however it crashes every time I try to add a new entry.
It has also lost two years worth of data meaning I no longer have a record of how conditions vary over time.
So sad to give this a 1 star review.
Helpful record
I have a genetic condition which leads to chronic pain. I find the diary helpful in monitoring how often I need analgesics and whether other measures such as heat, relaxation therapy and graded exercise have been effective instead of medication. It also allows me to see if there is a pattern in the development of severe pain and to examine whether there may be precipitating factors.
Not able to use body shape
With the updates of iOS the functionality has lessened it more hassle but works for me. Prefer to have the body shapes to mark out what and where is not great.
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