Living with chronic pain or flare-ups
Keep a calm, honest record of good and hard days, and notice what tends to come before a flare.
When pain is part of daily life, it can be exhausting to keep track of, and harder still to explain to others. A simple record can help with both.
Ideas to try
- Log pain once a day at a similar time, or whenever it changes. Even a single number helps.
- Add a few Activity choices so you can see what tends to come before better or harder days.
- If you use Apple Health, steps and sleep can come in automatically, which means less to log on difficult days.
- Use How often by week or month to see the bigger picture, rather than any single day.
For appointments
The Timeline and Trend views make it easier to show a doctor or physiotherapist what the last few months have looked like, instead of having to remember it all on the spot.