My Pain Diary: Chronic Pain & Symptom Tracker App Reviews

This has helped me so much ... To reports / features / and ease of use are great WORTH IT!!!! And more!

Very useful

I love this app. I suffer from Fibromyalgia, Migraines, Bursitis...you get the idea! This app allows me to track what is going on at what point on which day. It captures the quality of my pain, the severity, and what remedies I have tried. It is SO customizable, I have added Meds and even added additional pain areas. I highly recommend this app.

☹️ Records general symptoms that you input but does not let you track food, drink, medications, and other symptomatic criteria. Great app if you want to know if your symptom is related to weather conditions. Each entry automatically records the current weather condition, which can get redundant if you have several entries each day. Report shows only two entries per day so if you have more they are not seen by the physician. Wasted my money!!

Got a new phone and the app was erased from the memory and every entry was gone with it. Much easier and cheaper to use calendar on iPhone. Do not recommend!

Would love it if you could enter the exact time your symptom began. They have duration, which is good. But there are times when a certain symptom may occur during the morning afternoon or evening and if you could enter the time that you had the symptoms like 3:30 or 2 PM, something like that; it would be helpful to the doctor and the patient.

First let me say I dont have chronic pain. But I do you have a rare, inherited disorder that causes intense pain to the point of circulatory collapse with loss of consciousness during the most severe attacks, a few times a year, and slightly less painful attacks weekly without loss of consciousness. I belong to a rare disease Facebook group and that is where I heard about this app. Because of the specifics of my disease, I needed to be able to radically customize the app. I found it very easy to use daily, it has so many features that none of the other disease apps have: the ability to easily insert pictures, & the app automatically creates graphs that are also customizable, so you can track how you are doing on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis. The narrative report that includes the pictures and graph is fantastic! My doctor gets a monthly email of this narrative report from me by email, and it is helpful in documenting medical necessity for health insurance purposes. I love this app, Ive had it almost a year, and no complaints. I think youll like it too if you have a chronic illness, chronic pain, or are caretaking for someone with these issues and want an easy place to document things like blood pressure, symptoms, severity, pulse Oximetry, medications used that day, weight, etc. and photographs of affected areas. I input data from my Fitbit HR - daily heart rate graphs, sleep duration and restlessness, times awake during the night, etc. to the pain app - it only takes a minute or so daily once you customize the app for that information. Best medical data tracking and reporting app available!

I like it because its customisable and can be used for multiple conditions.

I like how you can add your own custom symptoms, triggers, etc. the pdf report is also very neat plus pictures. Im not sure theres much this app cant do.

Love that I can add locations and remedies and edit posts. My doctor now just asks to look at my diary to see whats going on.

Ive found this app fulfills a real need in attempting to find ways to cope with the pain other than more drugs. I recommend you get it. Also its hugely flexible.

This app has become indispensable to me in tracking and helping me manage pain from migraine and (now) post-concussive syndrome. It has the rare combination of being dynamic and flexible, as well as clear and easy to use and read. The user interface is so clean - no jumble of data, just what I need, when I need it.

Ive used this for months, and I love it! The auto timestamp and weather log are so important to me, because they help me track changes in my chronic migraine pain, and I know they will help my doctors and me to see correlations with humidity, barometric pressure, or even just the sun. The only downside Ive found so far is with the Colored Flag system. You can flag each entry by color, so that you can tell the difference between your various chronic conditions entries in the history at a glance. However, if you make a mistake and flag an entry with the wrong color, when you go back and edit that entry (which is entirely possible and very helpful), you cannot change the Color Flag. (Update from my original rating, you can delete the entry and begin again with the correct flag.) Other than that, with all of the reports and graphs it can create, this app has become the most important tool on my phone.

Ive been so happy with this app, from being able to customizing the pain level descriptions, the types and locations of pain, what treatments Ive tried, etc. occasionally there is trouble accessing the weather info, but it seems to be a phone-wide issue for me, and not app specific. I was also able to get a quick response to some questions on the apps Facebook page. I would definitely recommend this app to anyone who needs to track pain.

I love the ability to track my pain and am thrilled that it also tracks the weather. The only thing I think would help this is if your significant other or caregiver had read access to the app to know how you were feeling without the need to sound like youre complaining daily. That way maybe they could help with treatment or help notice patterns.

This app is the perfect way for me to track and inform my doctor!

I have several health issues and this is really helping me to keep track of the pain caused by these issues.

I had original install this application for my fibromyalgia and migraines. And after a car accident the lawyer wanted to keep track of what my pain radius was. Im able to send him reports every week so he knows where Im at with my pain levels. I also send it to my doctors pretty amazing.

An absolute godsend. Its thought of everything. Im about to be treated at a new medical center to try diagnose and treat me and this is an outstanding way to help the dr. Plus, With the multiple tracking, Ive learned patterns I wasnt aware of. I cant think of any way it could be improved upon. The best!!

I have had to keep track of my chronic migraines & I have had 2 strokes. This app has made my life so much easier. I like that I can edit everything. I like that I can add notes to each day then choose whether or not to share those with my Drs.