How many times do you feel like you just need to tell ‘someone’ how you are *really* feeling, but you don’t want to sound like you are always complaining? The Google Android FibroMapp app for tablets and smartphones provides an option that will always ‘listen’ and always remember and will never complain.
It’s called the Journal.
The Journal feature from FibroMapp provides an easy way to track your day
Writing in the Journal provides you an opportunity to express what is really going on at the time and how you are feeling – both physically as well as mentally – just between you and the Journal.
Writing down everything that happens in your day can also help you to figure out what’s causing your flare-ups. Flare-ups can happen anywhere from 24-72 hours AFTER the fact… Can you remember what you were doing three days ago? Heck, half the time, I can’t remember what I was doing three hours ago!.
Now imagine being able to track your pain, sleep, and medications and correlating them with your journal to see the patterns that emerge. Believe me, there ARE patterns! For example, I learned that a day or two after I go for a car ride without my neck brace on I’m in agony.
The Journal function of FibroMapp also helps to uncover how stress is affecting your pain levels, brain-fog, sleep. Feeling crappy? Write it in your journal! Feeling good? Get it down in the journal then track back to see if anything you did in the last days or days can help explain it.
FibroMapp – A google/android app for managing your health
FibroMapp is helping people gain a better understanding of their illness – ultimately giving them more control over their bodies. It also provides the reports (that you can download and print/email) to your doctor, so that they are able to get the full picture of what is going on for you.
We’ll be covering other features of the FibroMapp App in future blogs.
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I just bought it. Looks like a great app. I’m adding this along with my Basis monitor. Those should really give me alot of data to find patterns.
I just wish the FibroMapp had jaw/face pain listed. Since many of us deal with TMJ and/or Trigeminal Neuralgia.
Oops! I spoke too soon. You CAN change the settings to personalize areas of pain.
Yep! The app can be personalised to fit exactly your needs and requirements! 🙂 Thank you for buying it. I hope it helps to make a difference for you.
I love this app. I use it every single day. I keep track of my sleep, meds and pain levels. However, journaling isn’t something I do very much. Why? Because typing long-ish entries is not as easy as typing here is. Imagine having to journal the way you text someone via your smart phone.
So while the other features are certainly reasons to use this app daily, using the app to journal isn’t something I find useful (enough).
Shannon,
I just clicked on your blog. I love that poem!
I actually find the journal extremely helpful and helps me match up my pain to my sleep and what I have been doing the past few days etc. The thing is that flares can happen 24-72 hours AFTER the fact. Just being able to write in ‘gardening’ or ‘shopping’ or ‘feeling ok today’ is all it takes…it doesn’t need to be a diary of your life’s ins and outs! But to be able to look back and realise, ‘aha, I am in pain on Tuesday because I was gardening on Sunday…’ helps. Honest. x
I think I am going to try this out. Too often, symptoms get away from me before I realize what is happening, then go back and piece it together. Something happened recently that was bad, then a week later again, a week later then again, and I am just now fixing it when it could have been stopped.
It is amazing to me, though, at the same time that anyone could hold it together enough consistently to do this. I tried keeping a daily diary. That lasted about two days and then I forgot about it for weeks. Just too blitzed. I kept charts well enough in the early years. Even though I am doing better now than I have in a long time, it seems mental fog is the worst. Any suggestions?
And… never mind. It is an Android app. 🙂 My reading comprehension is off these days as well apparently. Is there an equivalent Apple product, do you know?
We are anticipating the Apple version will be ready in the summer. The sooner the better as we know so many people are waiting for it!
I will keep an eye out! Thanks!