My Pain Diary & Symptom Tracker: Gold Edition 12+

Damon Lynn

Designed for iPad

    • $6.99

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Description

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.

-- MEDICATION TRACKING --
+ Basic medication tracking.

-- 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

What’s New

Version 1.1.0

This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.

New Color Coded Calendar features! (Tap the yellow dot at the top left of the History screen)
3 or 5 colors.
Adjustable color stops.
Colors based on daily high intensity or new daily average intensity.

Ratings and Reviews

3.9 out of 5
33 Ratings

33 Ratings

JoelVinkle ,

Setup is A bit complicated

I really like this app. It tracks just about everything you could imagine and entry is very simple.

There are a couple of things I would like to see changed.

First, like others have mentioned, to be able to move between iPhone and iPad. I like to use my iPad but don’t always have it with me. Might have to bite the bullet and just put it on my phone.

Second, I am in Alberta, Canada and the weather metric doesn’t seem to work. It should be noted that not all of the app works outside of wherever it was designed, I am assuming the US. This is very valuable to me. Also being able to modify the weather metric would be helpful too. Most places these days use metric instead of standard measurements so it would be nice to choose which one you want to use.

Other than that it is pretty good. Being highly customizable means that you will probably have to watch all the videos on YouTube and play around with it a bit but once you get it all setup it is an amazing tool.

Gloriamccabe ,

Can't use

Tru tp enter things and it crashes so it's unuseable

Stars55moon ,

My app keeps crashing crashing

Even though I reinstalled it. Presently looking for a new app

App Privacy

The developer, Damon Lynn, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

No Details Provided

The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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