Needing Your Input: Migraine Diary via Mobile Phone
What if keeping a headache or migraine diary was easy, fast, and you could do it from anywhere? What if it was all electronic, so that you could get instant trends and statistics? What would your perfect diary look like, and what would it include?
I recently got an email from Jacqueline, a Canadian studying in France. She’s working on developing diaries for people with chronic illness, and became especially interested in migraine patients.
Her idea is to take advantage of the internet, and mobile phones, to better collect and use information.
Knowledge is power, folks. Not just for the individual patient, but for all of us who share the knowledge with one another.
Jacqueline wants to give you the opportunity to give suggestions. What would it take for you to use a diary like this? What would make it useful? What kinds of information would you want to include?
You can give your input by taking part in the survey now (it’s short):
We’ve talked about different diary options before. Check out Headache or Migraine diary – by phone? and Calculating triggers online? For a paper version that I find useful, check out this diary headache migraine solution.
Hopefully Jacqueline will keep us up to date on how this project develops!
23 April 2009 @ 8:07 am
Hi James,
I blogged about this HERE. Hopefully you’ll get more survey participants.
Pam
23 April 2009 @ 8:48 am
Thanks, Pam!
12 February 2012 @ 4:34 pm
Here’s a very simple way of keeping track of your pain level by mobile phone.
http://askmeevery.com/
This is a site that texts you a question that you write to yourself. It then records the answer that you text back.
I have it ask me “how bad was my headache?” every night at 10 PM. I can go to the website and see a graph of my responses.