Free resources
Free guides for tracking pain
Everything here is free, with no account needed. The goal of each guide is the same: walk into your appointment with a record your doctor can actually use.
Guides and templates
Free printable pain diary (PDF)
A ready-to-print body map, 0-10 scales, trigger checklist, and doctor-visit
prompts.
Pain management appointment prep sheet (PDF)
What the appointment will ask for, and a printable page to bring it already
written down.
What to tell your doctor about chronic pain
The five things to bring and how to say them in the first two minutes of the
visit.
How to prove your pain to a doctor
When you feel dismissed: how to document pain so it is hard to wave off.
How to document chronic pain for a disability claim
What a strong record contains, why consistency matters, and how to bring it on one page.
How to track back pain for your doctor
What to log, why the positional pattern matters, and how often.
How to track rheumatoid arthritis for your doctor
Morning stiffness in minutes, which joints, dated flares, fatigue and function.
How to track migraine for your neurologist
Headache days per month, attack length and side, medication dates, days lost.
How to track nerve pain for your neurologist
Where it is, what it feels like in your words, nights disturbed, days lost.
How to track hypermobility symptoms for your doctor
Which joint and what it did, pain that moves, fatigue and the day after, load.
How to track endometriosis pain for your gynecologist
Pain dated against your cycle, where it sits, the non-period days, what it cost.
How to track lupus flares for your rheumatologist
Record the days not the flares, joints by side, fatigue by what it cost.
What to write down after a flare, while you still remember it
Six items, captured in the hour it eases, and why function beats a number.
Pain tracking apps that work offline and without an account
The airplane-mode test, the four things to check, and the honest trade-off.
The best free pain tracker app for doctor visits
Free to log is not free to report: the five questions that decide it.
How to describe your pain to a doctor
The quality words clinicians listen for, and how to anchor the 0-10 scale.
What to bring to a pain management appointment
The checklist: records, meds and what helped, prior treatments, questions.
How to track fibromyalgia for your doctor
What to log for fibromyalgia, how often, and how to summarize it for an
appointment.
How to track a fibromyalgia flare
The five things to capture during a flare, and how to spot your triggers over
time.
A free Manage My Pain alternative
Free doctor reports, no credits, and an honest side-by-side comparison.
A free Bearable alternative
Pain-focused, with a free doctor report and a body map. Honest comparison.
Manage My Pain vs Bearable
Which one if the appointment is the reason you are tracking, and where each charges.
For clinicians
A free pain diary you can recommend to patients in one sentence. No portal to
manage.
Guides in other languages live in their own section rather than mixed in here. Currently available: Ratgeber auf Deutsch.
Skip the paper. Let the app build it.
Pain Journal logs your pain in seconds and generates the doctor summary for you, body-map heatmap and all. No account. No ads. Free doctor reports, always: the last 7 days, no credits, no per-export fee.
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