Does anyone have a good method of keeping track of pain?
I have an Apple Watch, and it has a “Clickr” app that just lets me tap it every time I get a shocking or stabbing sensation. It helps keep track of them over the course of a day, but I am wanting to find something that will let me do that AND let me look at the data over time.
In other words, a clicker but that just lets you see when each shock happened.
Any secret apps out there?
This sounds like a great idea. I actually would like to keep track of the level of pain throughout the day to see if time triggers it or activities. I’ll keep watching to see if anyone has anything along what you are interested in.
I love your name! Tennessee Williams is so good! Sometimes I feel like my face is a glass menagerie!
Anyway, here is the simple one I use on my watch: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clicker-count-anything/id1043951998?mt=8
It doesn’t track the time of the shock, but it is great for total daily shocks, which I then write down in my pain diary at the end of each day. Just remember to write down any big changes on a particular day: like lack of sleep, a new medicine, lack of food, anything out of the ordinary that might have influenced your pain.
The hardest thing for me in keeping a USEFUL pain diary is keeping the variables to a minimum. Because sometimes our pain is completely random, and sometimes it is because of some change we have made. The more aware we are of those causes the better.
Anyway, I’ll keep a lookout too!
There is an article that was written in LiveScience.com on Nov 25, 2015 titled “Best Apps for Pain Management”. Yes, it’s old, but it’s a good place to start and it gives a lot of information. Check it out -
Thank you! Some of these seem really great. Hopefully it will help reveal some patterns for me, and hopefully they’ll keep getting better.
I have to do more research about their privacy settings. As we are coming to find out, nothing is really free. I love this website though, because our thoughts aren’t being sold to companies we don’t know. We have to make sure that some day they aren’t going to us this against us to increase our insurance costs or even worse. I know I sound a little paranoid, but several insurance companies have been doing things like this.
Thanks again and hope you’re having a good day!