Chronic Pain Journal Printable: Body Map Tracker, Flare-Up Log, Spoon Planner, Medication Diary

Hand your doctor a page that shows your last month of pain, instead of trying to remember how bad last Tuesday really was.
This 85-page chronic pain journal gives you a daily pain log with a front and back body map, weekly, monthly and yearly trackers, flare-up and trigger logs, medication pages, appointment prep and a spoon planner, ready to print or use on a tablet.

INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD: no physical item will be shipped.

━━ WHAT'S INCLUDED ━━
• Start Here: how to use the journal, My Pain at a Glance (shade where you usually hurt, your pain story, allergies, key contacts: the page to hand a new doctor) and Pain Words (words to describe your pain, a 0 to 10 scale in your own words, sentence starters for appointments)
• Daily Pain Log x14: front and back body map to shade, pain level morning, afternoon and evening (0 to 10 circles), how it feels, mood faces, energy battery, possible triggers, sleep, movement, medicines taken as prescribed, what helped and notes for your care team
• Weekly Overview x8: a 0 to 10 pain chart to join the dots, plus flare days, sleep, mood, energy and rest breaks
• Monthly: a Year in Pixels pain calendar and 12 undated Monthly Trackers (pain chart for days 1 to 31, flare, sleep, mood and energy rows)
• Flare-Ups: My Flare Plan (filled in on a good day), 3 flare-up log pages (6 flares) and a flare history table
• Triggers: 2 weekly trigger trackers and a Pattern Finder to look back over your logs
• Medications: a medications & supplements list (written in by you, as prescribed by your care team), 4 weekly medication logs, 2 as-needed relief logs (before and after levels) and Things I've Tried
• Appointments: My Care Team, 6 appointment prep & notes pages, a running Questions for My Doctor list (with starter questions) and an appointment log
• Comfort: My Comfort Toolkit, My Hard Day Plan and 2 gentle self-care logs
• Energy & Sleep: 4 spoon planners (shade your spoons, sort tasks into must do, nice to do and can wait), 2 weekly pacing planners and 2 weekly sleep logs
• Reflection: 4 gentle reflection pages and Small Good Moments, plus lined and dot grid notes
• START-HERE guide with setup steps, printing and tablet tips

━━ DETAILS ━━
• 85 pages, undated, so you can start any day of the year and reprint any page
• Made for anyone living with chronic or long-term pain, such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, back or nerve pain, endometriosis or migraine, and for the person who comes along to appointments
• Neutral, gender-neutral body map outline (front and back)
• Fully hyperlinked: 12 section tabs on every page, a clickable contents page, a Contents link on every page and a bookmarks panel
• Sizes: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in) with Sunday-start weeks, and A4 (210 x 297 mm) with Monday-start weeks
• Two styles: full color (calm dusk blue, soft clay and honey) and low-ink printer-friendly
• 5 files: Letter color, A4 color, Letter low-ink, A4 low-ink and the START-HERE guide
• Works with GoodNotes, Notability, Xodo and other PDF apps

━━ HOW IT WORKS ━━
1. Purchase and download your files from Etsy (Purchases and reviews).
2. Print at "Actual size" on regular paper, or import a PDF into GoodNotes, Notability, Xodo or another PDF app.
3. Fill in My Pain at a Glance first, then a Daily Pain Log each day: shade the body map, circle your level and tick what helped.
4. Each week, plot your days on the Weekly Overview and Monthly Tracker, and bring them to your next appointment.

━━ PLEASE NOTE ━━
• This journal is an organizer, not medical advice, and it does not replace your care team. It prints no doses, drug names or target numbers of any kind: every medicine is written in by you, as prescribed by your care team. Talk to your care team before changing anything.
• For personal use only. Please do not share, sell or redistribute the files.
• Colors may vary slightly between screens and printers.
• Because this is a digital product, returns and exchanges are not accepted.
• If anything is wrong with your files, message me and I'll help right away.

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