mySymptoms Food Diary 17+

With the help of this app I have got my life back. When doctors failed to understand my disparate symptoms of asthma, digestive and horrendous gerd symptoms I decided to start a food & everything diary. This app was the one I chose as it looked comprehensive and easy to use. I wasn’t wrong. I’ve been able to jot down all pertinent information about my daily health, diet, exercise, mood, everything. I’ve used it primarily for an elimination diet. I now have no asthma, no gerd, no digestive issues…and now no Oates. This app has helped me through a very dark time when I thought I’d never get to the bottom of my health issues. I’ve discovered I’m Oat (avenin) intolerant which I don’t believe would have been discovered if it hadn’t been for this app’s many features. I can not recommend it highly enough for anyone wishing to monitor/journal their health intake etc.

This app is honestly amazing for any IBS sufferers. It’s very straightforward and intuitive, although it does have a user guide within the app should you need assistance with anything. I love that you can see the exact time you’ve made a diary entry as it helps me stay aware of my choices and it keeps me accountable. I’m also happy that I can go back to a previous day and fill up my diary if I was too busy to do it on the day. The graphs are helpful and I’m glad they are transparent about correlation not causation and that they include confidence levels. The graphics are ok, the app has a clean look, nothing fancy but nice and easy to use.

A few suggestion for the developers: introduce a trends tab, for example one of your competitors has trends graphs of how the bowel movements fluctuate within a week or within a month. That would be helpful as well as stress trends or maybe some way to see them both on the graph to see the correlation.
Also, it’d be good if you could fetch health data from Apple’s Health app and link the results to that. For example, a big trigger for my flare-ups is lack of sleep and I track my sleep on my smart watch so it’d be cool if MySymptoms could pick up on lack of sleep etc. You could do it for other smart watches too, like Garmin or Fitbit. Exercise and sleep definitely impact IBS so it’d be amazing if that was an option.

I was looking for an app to record my daily eating and symptoms to try to identify whether certain foods trigger symptoms. I’ve been using the app for nearly two weeks and it’s perfect for what I wanted. It’s easy to add my meals and snacks and lots of other data that might be useful. I can add my own recipes, and my meal favourites come up so I don’t have to search for them each time. I’d recommend this app if you want to track your eating or for recording exercise and nutrition for a dietitian or personal trainer. I’ve found it so much easier than writing down in a notebook or on my phone notes. I would recommend this app.