WHY DID WE MAKE THIS?
You hurt. Your pain is chronic and complicated. You can’t remember everything. You want your doctors to understand, but you don’t know how to explain what you feel.
PAIN IS LIFE-CHANGING. HELP IS HERE.
Nanolume® developed the Pain Tracker & Diary to help you record the daily textures, intensities, and locations of what you feel, so you and your care team can better understand what you are suffering with and follow how your pain responds to medications and treatments.
TRACK IT BETTER. TREAT IT BETTER.
Pain is a complex experience. It often includes multiple pain types (layers), each with its own unique texture, intensity, location, and surface area.
By keeping a diary that keeps a record of complex information, you can show your doctors what you are feeing to help them make a better diagnosis, choose more appropriate medications and treatments, and monitor if your treatments are helping. In addition, by keeping such an detailed record, trends might emerge that would otherwise go unnoticed.
PAIN IS DIFFERENT.
Pain is a subjective (not objective) sensation that can't be measured. Its assessment relies on each person’s ability to communicate what they feel. Nanolume® developed this digital diary to help you record and remember what you feel every day.
INCLUDED FEATURES.
Create a "Diary Entry":
• Choose a Pain Type. Press "+" (top-right corner of Entries/Charts screen). Read the pain types listed on the menu or create a custom pain type. Tap the icon of the pain type you feel is most intense (you can come back to add another pain type to this entry before you tap "Done").
• Select the Intensity. Select the numeric intensity of the pain type you selected.
• Draw an Outline. Use your finger to draw an “outline” of the pain type you selected on the front and/or back sides of a generalized body map.
• Calculated Surface Areas. The app displays the % of body surface affected by each of the pain types drawn or shows the total % of body surface feeling pain.
• Zoom. Need to see a larger image of your hand or foot? Double-tap: "once" to zoom x2; "twice" to zoom x4; "a third time" to restore the image to its original size. We also offer pinch-to-zoom.
• Notes. Tap the “Notepad” in the top-left corner of each diary entry to record any details of your medications or treatment results.
• Tap "Add Pain." You can draw more than one pain type in each entry.
• Save Your Diary Entry. Tap "Done" to create a snapshot of all the pain type layers you need to draw in each entry. The app records the date/time each entry was saved.
• Open a Saved Entry. Tap on the date/time of the entry you want to review. Look at the intensity, location, and surface area of each distinct pain type you experienced (by touching the icon of the pain type you want to see) or see all the pain types at once and see how they overlap (tap the "All Layers" icon). Swipe the picture left or right to check how your other saved pain entries compare over time.
• Charts. View a summary of your data in "Charts."
• Forget to Save an Entry? Go back and recreate a "pain picture" from the past; then, use the "Calendar" icon to backdate the recreated entry.
• Calendar Backdating. Touch the "Calendar" icon to backdate any pain-picture you draw to create a record of what you remember from the past.
• Copy/Edit. Copy or edit a copy of a previous entry.
• CSV Export. Email or save a numeric file of your data; open that data in a spreadsheet.
• Interactive Summary & Animation. Play an animation of your data to see how each or all of your pain types change within the time period you choose by selecting the corresponding start/stop dates.
• PDF Export. Save or share your drawings, charts, notes.
PRIVACY IS IMPORTANT.
Your data is stored on your device and not collected or stored by Nanolume® LLC. Read our End-User License Agreement and Privacy Policy at www.nanolume.com.
This is a great little app but I’m finding it freezes quite a lot of the time when I’m trying to input the location and type of pain. May because I have a variety of pain types that are interlocking and cover a wide surface area of the boy? But it’s frustrating to have finally found and app that does exactly what I need only to have to freeze constantly on me. It is just not letting me add the pain specifics onto the body or if I do then I it won’t save the input so I can’t move onto the next entry
Good, but would like more features
This is good for logging pain location, type, and intensity.
However, sometimes it’s difficult drawing accurately while you’re experiencing the pain, I wish I could do a pain map, which I can draw on to show these attributes, and then simply touch the one that’s affecting me at the time. Also, it would be useful to have a body outline which includes the skeleton, since a lot of my pain is skeletal.
Sometimes it’s vey difficult to explain to the dr. exactly where the pain is.
Thank you.
Good pain tracker app
This app meets my needs for a tracker which is quick and simple to use, yet has enough features and flexibility to make it genuinely useful for tracking different kinds of pain.
The ability to draw on the area of pain is extremely helpful, and the menu for adding types of pain is very intuitive. The playback feature is a nice touch and the developer has put a lot of thought into making the app as feature rich and helpful as possible.
It’s good that it’s available on both iPhone and iPad, but it would be useful if you could link accounts across devices.
It would also be good if you could select more than one type of pain at once so that you don’t have to add each entry individually, but this is still a very solid app
V4.00 excels itself
After a serious RTA four years ago I have been using Nanolume’s Pain Tracker app to record all of my pain scores. In February I was asked by my Pain Consultant if I could export the data.
V3 of the app only exported the numeric scores, not the pain diagram or notes.
I contacted the support desk and they advised me that V4 was due soon and would have many new rich features, including a much improved export facility.
This has been delivered as promised and it really ticks all of the boxes.
The guys at Nanolume have been really busy and thorough in delivering a superb bug-free new release.
This app is really great and for a few £’s as a one off subscription you get all of these rich features on top of the base free App
Well done and thank you.
Chris
Cambridge
United Kingdom
What about half the population?!
Pretty good, basic and fairly reasonable. Just one really major thing - the human figure is male. How come half the population matter so little that we can’t even show pain on an appropriate figure? Where’s the basic ability to switch to a representative picture? What’s the point of visual representation that doesn’t actually represent the patient?
No pain duration details option to add!!!
I don’ t seem to see option to add pain duration of each pain entry.
Surgical Pain Management
I am day 3 post hip surgery and finding this app excellent to track my pain.
I wondered if the developers might help me with a few queries:
1- Is it possible to export data with notes in a column?
2- Do you plan to add in a function to log when medication is taken?
3- How can I access the full chart without having to scroll across? The only viable option I see right now is to export the data and create my own charts.
With 1 and 2 sorted I would rate 5 stars.
Just What the Doctor Ordered
A superb app. I have shown this app to my pain management doc and also my Rheumatologist and both ate very interested in looking at it closer. The support given by the app owner has also been perfect. I highly recommend this app.
You won’t get much change from £10
Paid £2.99 for the unlimited entries upgrade which featured as a pop up in the app. Then discovered it was another £1.99 if I wanted to unlock ‘numbness’ as a pain type, another 99p to have the ability to edit existing entries, another 99p to customise pain types (limited to 3 customisable entries) and £2.99 to unlock the ‘interactive summary’. All in all £9.95 for this app if you want all the features. I understand apps take time, money and effort to create and deliver but to have hidden charges which are just shy of £10 is daylight robbery. There are apps just as comprehensive out there which charge a fraction of this and are upfront about it when you first download them. Luckily I only lost £2.99, but I still feel ripped off to find to actually make proper use of this app I would have to spend more.
Not bad but needs more features
It’s good at what it does but desperately needs a feature to display the graphs over a longer period such as month by month, year by year. Failing this, being able to export the pain ratings to Excel would be helpful.
