There aren’t any good apps for tracking this one already, except a little functionality in OvuSoft, but adding a way to chart high pain days and correlate that with weather and activity would be a HUGE bonus for those of us living with chronic pain and illness, to figure out what makes us feel better and worse.

agreed!

Would be very useful.

With custom tracking launched https://exist.io/blog/custom-tracking/ there’s a lot less pressing need to build something specifically for pain tracking. You can create and use custom tags to track specific symptoms for each day, whatever the illness, and we’ll help you find what’s correlated.

I still think that pain tracking as its own feature would be useful.. I can tag that I’ve had pain on a specific date, but tracking a level with that would be much more effective. So then I could see correlation between levels or intensities of pain as opposed to just knowing that I had pain. I have pain daily, so tracking pain as a tag doesn’t help. Even if I tag separately by level (either by a tag like “severe pain” or “level 10 pain”) how does exist know to compare mild, moderate or severe. Also, it would be most effective to see the pain averages like you do with mood. “You had less pain this week with an average of 6 as opposed to 8 the prior week.”

Agreed! Something simple like My Pain Diary would be great!

Could be rolled in with nausea or another generic symptom tracker?

There are medical guidelines for pain assessment which could really refine pain tracking particularly if you did it in house and included medication recording.

The custom tags are great and help to provide a lot of good info. Something like migraine buddy (app) has a lot of the features that are wonderful for tracking migraines and looking for triggers, but it doesn’t connect to Fitbit, MyFitnessPal, etc, so you have to enter activity, food, water, etc in it as well as others if you want to use them. That’s why I use Exist now instead of migraine buddy. It’s more important to me to see how my activity, food, etc affects migraines but some of the additional features of the pain level and algorithms to look at triggers b/c what you do several days in advance can trigger a migraine would be wonderful! While I’m dreaming, being able to track how effective a medication was would also be great. However, a lot of migraine apps (like migraine buddy) are very rigid with wanting to know the exact time the migraine started and ended. That’s helpful, but being able to just put “today, migraine 8/10, took imitrex inj, indomethacin and baclofen, pain better after 1 hour” is helpful too–and typically all a neuro wants/needs to know. I imagine other chronic pain conditions have similar tracking desires.

I agree with Nickie. Custom is binary; pain varies on a scale. Now adding scale optionally to custom would be cool…

Brad, you might be interested in this suggestion.

Hi! I’d like to bump this up to 2021. I’d love to be able to connect something like MigraineBuddy and MyPainDiary.

A scale of intensity would be great not just for pain - I’m breastfeeding, and trying to find links between what I eat and the severity of my bub’s eczema. So adding a tag for ‘rash’ and then being able to choose the level would be perfect.

This is now possible with our new manual tracking features. You can read more about what’s possible with manual tracking and how to get started on our blog.