Manage My Pain Reviews

Having moved from the discontinued Pain Tracker app I wasn’t expecting to find anything much like that, it was VERY comprehensive. But kind of involved, so I probably didn’t use it as often as I should’ve; certainly not every day. MMP is actually kind of a simplified version of Pain Tracker-and it’s working out fine thanks to its editable tables for not only pain but activities as well. Mental well being. It’s quick entry and includes gentle reminders for daily entries. I’ve only been using it about a month so I’ll be interested in checking out the graphs and other reporting features before long. For something so simple it’s got everything you need for health tracking and/or journaling.

I am a chronic pain patient of 11 years. This tool is the best I have found to track my pain and the aspects that surround it, treatment of, and response of the treatment. I plan on printing and taking this record into my pain specialist. It’s much easier to give him this than to try and remember my average pain score over the past two weeks to month.

I like the fact that I can tailor the list to meet my needs and symptoms. I’ve added items in that don’t exist in their database. It’s easy to do. I would recommend ManageMyPain to anyone. The one thing is like to see added is a way to add your provider and share the pain record to them via ManageMyPain to email.

As mentioned, ManageMyPain does what I expected it to do, pretty good app

EDIT
Pain is a relative scale, as you all know. For me, I will never rank a 10 because to me, 10 means you are dying. There’s no where else to go past 10. What I would look into is the medications. Some of my medications are liquid in dropper form. Medical MJ for me is either edible or vape, which is difficult to measure. For what it is worth, even though I gave it 4 stars, I will be recommending ManageMyPain to those I know dealing with chronic pain.

I have had undiagnosed health issues for a while now. I appreciate ManageMyPain for documenting my pain and discomfort through associated situations and moods. It is customizable in that you can add and edit every category. ManageMyPain reminds me to input my symptoms and I find this very helpful.

You can add various medications and coping mechanisms as well as situations, events, and moods that are associated with the pain/discomfort.

I also like that you can add “daily reflections” to include positive things like successes, accomplishments and other happy things.

ManageMyPain is user friendly and allows you to customize your categories and lists (i.e. Locations; Characteristics; Medications etc.) giving you a very good sense of control. Furthermore, it offers a feature that enables you to generate comprehensive reports, which can be shared and reviewed with your doctor, making it my favorite pain tracking app.

One recommendation would be to add additional choices to the ‘better’ and ‘no change’ options. Perhaps consider adding to those options ‘somewhat better’ and ‘no change yet’ to provide a more nuanced reflection of the user’s pain relief progress. This way, when you log that you took pain medication, for instance, you'll have the flexibility to note any partial relief experienced, even if complete alleviation hasn't occurred yet.

I am only giving it 4 stars because I wish there was a way for me to add my own symptoms, activities, etc that don’t appear on the drop downs. Also wish there was a separate blank field to add daily food. Nonetheless, ManageMyPain is really easy to use and takes a short time to add a record. The reports are also incredibly helpful for when I go to the doctors.

I would like to thank the creators and everyone involved in the development of ManageMyPain for helping me track my treatment and progress toward a healthy and pain-free life!!! <3

I have already recommended ManageMyPain to several people I love and I have only been using it a couple days so far. It is helping me to track all of my issues to give a more complete view to my doctors and hopefully get a more accurate diagnosis. I love how customizable it is. If a Med you take isn’t listed you can send an email and they have it added within minutes. If a feeling isn’t listed you just tap add and can write it in. It tracks so many things for you like type of pain, what helped, what didn’t help, what made worse, where you were when the pain started, accomplishments each day even if they are small like got out of bed on your own or took a shower. To some those are huge. It really helps to look back at things and see what helps most often. I have been filling it in when I’m pain and checking the list of things I could do to improve it and then edit when the pain has gone down to finish the entry. When you really hurt it can be hard to remember things that you can do to help ease the pain.

Takes a couple sessions to get to the point where entries become routine, but that’s the yin/yang of a useful app that walks that tightrope. I have intractable chronic pain presently controlled by activity (I.e. inactivity) and meds, after all other realistic options were exhausted. I bought ManageMyPain to see if certain foods or other unknowns cause flaring of pain above the ordinary 6/10 daily baseline. It was worth $3.99 to test this possibility.

I’ve used and deleted many pain/symptom apps for a few years. ManageMyPain is great for tracking moods, aggravating activities, times, interventions, and so on. I like that I can tap a name of a body part rather than on an anatomical figure—it’s less fussy and time-consuming this way. I also like the graphs that show my patterns! Plus I can easily edit any logs at any time unlike some apps that made me delete and start over.

MMP is an amazing app to use if you suffer from chronic pain. Simple to use from day one. Let’s you track what you did for the day, how it effected your pain, what you did to relieve your pain, and how the pain is effecting you. You can generate a report of your progress if you wish. I do and take it with me to my doctors appointments. The doctor then can see day to day with out me having to give him some vaguely descriptive answer. It helps me. It may help you too.

I have not been using ManageMyPain long but am already leaving a review as I am finding it so helpful for tracking my fibromyalgia. On my own sometimes I don’t realize my pain has gotten worse, better, or otherwise changed, and ManageMyPain is really helping me keep track of this and also better figure out what interventions help what kinds of pain. I also like how it asks me to check in every evening about what meaningful activities I’ve done that day. Recommended.

Very helpful and comprehensive app!!

I do have 2 suggestions though- it would be very helpful and allow for more accuracy in tracking pain symptoms, aggravating factors etc. to add a .5 option to the pain scale, i.e. being able to enter in my pain is at a 6.5 or 7.5 instead of having to choose between a 6 or 7 etc.

Also, adding Pelvic and Ovarian pain icons/options to the list of body parts where it hurts could help women and other people with Ovaries get more specific in tracking gynecological based pain. I am aware we can create custom icons but given how many people experience a variety of gynecological problems/chronic issues (i.e. Endometriosis, PCOS, Ovarian Cancer), it would feel more gender and body inclusive if these options already existed in the body section/where it hurts part of ManageMyPain when you first download it.

That being said, I am extremely impressed with ManageMyPain!! It’s very thorough, thoughtful and clearly created with alot of care and attention ❤️.
I’ve put off logging my symptoms on a daily basis for years because it honestly just felt too overwhelming and frankly, a bit depressing. ManageMyPain’s cute icons, clean design and user friendly format makes tracking my symptoms easy and even a bit of fun. It’s also very interesting and informative to see the percentages in various charts and graphs over time!

I have tried a couple of different apps to track pain. I currently deal with spinal stenosis and fibromyalgia. Both of these diseases can create a ton of pain so it’s important that I relay accurate information to my pain management doctor.

I use ManageMyPain on my iPhone but I also discovered there is an app for my Apple laptop and it stays in sync with the data I entered on my phone.

I understand every developer must find a way to make money. For some of us who are now disabled due to our illnesses the cost to run reports can get a little expensive.

ManageMyPain is great! I only recently downloaded it via recommendation from a friend, and it’s been great so far. I haven’t had any bugs or felt it lacked anything. I have a lot of diagnoses (6, currently, and in the process of another) and only 1 of them wasn’t on the condition list (and given it is primarily psychological, it’s understandable), and all of my medications were on there! It’s specific enough to be helpful and detailed while also being broad enough to avoid being overwhelming or taking too long to add an entry. All in all super helpful, and I haven’t even had it for long. My friend shares the sentiment as well.

It’s all that I wanted and more, and I haven’t even signed in yet. I expect to find more features once I create an account and sign in, but right now it’s really impressive in letting me track my pain, the type, location and measure of pain, and how I am feeling that day in other ways like mood, energy and what activities I got up to. Possibly the most impressive feature is that it is customizable to my personal needs. If I don’t like the available descriptions I can edit the list. That is a true differentiator. But I have to emphasize that the way they are allowing people to record their pain shows they listened to the needs of chronic pain suffers. 💚🧡❤️💙💜

Absolutely amazing app. I have chronic migraines, fibromyalgia and other chronic pain issues, and I’m really bad at explaining my symptoms and keep it track if when they happen, how often to say they’re happening other than “every day”, etc. ManageMyPain is a game changer.

The amount of customizable areas to fit your specific needs make it so you can log EVERYTHING. The pain scale is very comprehensive, which is something people with chronic pain tend to struggle with, myself included. I’m finding myself actually logging my pain most of the time.

The only thing I’d change about ManageMyPain is; you can’t separate your “pain conditions” from your other conditions and still have them logged in ManageMyPain . And you can’t have your medications for things other than pain logged unless you’re logging them as for pain management. I’d like to be able to have all of my medical conditions and medications logged in ManageMyPain . Maybe an “other conditions” section would be helpful?

Otherwise ManageMyPain is the best tracking app I’ve found by far.

I’ve been looking for a symptom tracking app I like, and I’ve found a few but most of them are pretty expensive after a free trial so I was looking for something more affordable.

I really like how it looks and it’s easy to use. It loads immediately so I can log symptoms even when I’m in a lot of pain/brain foggy because it’s so quick and easy. If I had one feature I’d like to add it might be to rate different pain/symptoms differently all in one form (ex: lower back is a 7 but head is only a 3). You can select multiple different locations for pain and associate symptoms in one, but then they all have the same pain rating. It’s easy enough to just log multiple pain records, but it would be even easier if you could rate each one separately in the same form.

As I am just recently being diagnosed, I am finding ManageMyPain very helpful in tracking my pain patterns. It is helping me learn what my potential triggers are as well as how to better manage my condition. It is very easy to use as far as apps go and compared to other similar apps that I have tried. I like that you are able to customize each section with places, activities, pain sensations... etc.. that specifically apply to you. I would have to say that my one complaint, is that initially I was confused on how the free version was different from the paid and I also was also confused on how to even upgrade to the paid in the beginning. After some digging around I did figure it out, but only after I managed to waste my 1 available report credit on data that wasn’t even (sufficient) worth getting a report on yet.

I really like ManageMyPain and I have used a lot of them in my time. I’ve been logging my pain every day for 2 months now which is the most consistent I’ve been. I like that it prompts me to log function although I wish it looked different because sometimes I accidentally log my pain number instead. By logging both of these I can see the relationship between my pain and function scores.

One thing that I think would be a great improvement is the ability to get a report with pain duration. I experience constant pain so I actually will poke myself in a tender spot and time it, then log the duration. It’s a good way to show how flared up I am. Currently there is a very limited view of duration and I didn’t see it as a field I could get a paid report for (I would definitely pay to get an report of the duration beyond 30 days!)

ManageMyPain has provided much needed assistance with my limited ability to monitor & track my daily fibro challenges especially during flares! ManageMyPain with its daily reminders allows me to easily select what my days pain level is/was, what the issues are, how it was managed and allows me to easily report my status to my treatment team. I really appreciate the user friendly design🙏🏻