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Posted 5/5/2017 8:24 PM (GMT 0)
I'm curious as to what y'all put in your daily journal, if you keep one.

I list sleep, meals, snacks, weight, bm, activity, symptom severity, supplements /meds including how long I've been taking each. It's getting kind of tedious. I got a bound journal book for the beginning of the year thinking I'd be well before getting to the end of it but alas, my about 3/4 of the way through. I look at today's date and say oh @#&! Where's my life?
Posted 5/5/2017 8:27 PM (GMT 0)
I don't write as much as I used to.

I write a little 'blurb' for each day - how I feel in the a.m. mid day and evening.
I also have written what antibiotics/herbs I've taken for the day.

I used to do a daily symptom list -rating each one in severity and would rate them 3X day.

That was tedious and I found myself too focussed on symptoms...

I may do it again for a few weeks see how I rate now compared to a year ago.
Posted 5/5/2017 8:42 PM (GMT 0)
I didn't keep a journal and I am so sorry I didn't. I have a bunch of papers tucked away in a folder but it would take me forever to figure out which order to put them in. The only thing I do is keep a monthly calendar of the meds and supplements I am taking. I also have a piece of paper on my counter to keep track of my daily tinctures.

Patty
Posted 5/5/2017 8:50 PM (GMT 0)
I have a chart with about 20 sx in the left column and 1 - 30/31 across top of the page with M-S noted, so I have a good summary of a month. I'm sorry I started to track sx on scale of 0 to 9, 0 to 5 would have worked better. I also note start/stop of any Rx or herbs, and if anything out of the ordinary happened, like muscle twitching, stool issues, or bruising and vessel ruptures occurred. When a new sx occurs it gets added to the bottom of the list.

I got a whole lot of sx that have zeroed out. and pretty much down to 5 or 6 items: Arthritis in hand, Fatigue, sleep disruptions, cold hand, runny nose/post nasal drip, diarrhea, and neuro feet problems.
Posted 5/5/2017 8:56 PM (GMT 0)

summer16 said...
I didn't keep a journal and I am so sorry I didn't. I have a bunch of papers tucked away in a folder but it would take me forever to figure out which order to put them in. The only thing I do is keep a monthly calendar of the meds and supplements I am taking. I also have a piece of paper on my counter to keep track of my daily tinctures.

Patty

Summer,
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There is an Android app called MEDISAFE. You click off daily as you take pill and it reminds you when it's time to take. I'd be lost without it
Posted 5/5/2017 8:59 PM (GMT 0)
I keep track of symptoms that change for the good, what I eat, daily tummy and 💩 situations. I keep track of meds on my phone.

After I see doctor I add her notes.
Posted 5/5/2017 9:02 PM (GMT 0)
I kept one back in the early days just to catalog my weird symptoms and pain, and that was before I figured out I had Lyme, not Fibromyalgia.

Then I kept track of my tincture doses when I was tittering up, then I didn't need to know anymore.
Writing has gotten very problematic for me, so I just don't, and I have too many other obligations to take time and note book it all on the computer.

I have accumulated a variety of pill divider cases that are very useful but I depend so much on my tinctures these days, I do not forget to take them.
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