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Discover which habits improve & worsen your Chronic Pain. Track and manage your Pain symptoms. Prep for medical appointments and set reminders for meds & treatments.
Identify the habits that correlate with changes in the severity of your chronic pain symptoms. Use this knowledge to…
Track changes in the severity of each of your chronic pain symptoms – in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Use Bearable’s symptom reports to help your answer questions about…
Identify patterns between pain symptoms and changes in: Sleep, HRV, Steps, Heart Rate, Resting Heart Rate, Weight, Blood Pressure, and more.
Track the habits which might impact your chronic pain including; Stress, poor sleep, weather changes, physical overexertion, lack of physical activity, certain foods or drinks, hormonal changes, dehydration, medication side effects, illness or infections, emotional distress, environmental factors like bright lights or loud noises, posture or ergonomics, alcohol or caffeine, skipping meals, temperature extremes, allergens, prolonged sitting or standing.
You can also create unlimited ‘custom triggers’ and track any habits you think could be causing flare ups or triggering changes in symptom severity.
Track your pain symptoms in as much or as little detail as you’d like. Our symptom tracking tools allow you to create unlimited custom symptoms, so that you can track changes in symptom severity and frequency.
Examples of chronic pain symptoms that you can track include: Pain, fatigue, stiffness, headaches or migraines, sensitivity to touch light sound or temperature, muscle weakness or spasms, swelling or inflammation, sleep disturbances, mood changes, depression and anxiety, brain fog, digestive issues, reduced mobility, tingling or numbness.
There is no limit to what you can track in Bearable, and the app can be personalised to your specific chronic pain symptoms.
Track any of your chronic pain medications, set up medication reminders to help you adhere to your meds schedule, and spot patterns between medications and changes in symptom severity and side-effects.
Examples of common medications for pain that can be tracked in the Bearable app include: Acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), naproxen (Aleve), aspirin (Bayer), diclofenac (Voltaren), celecoxib (Celebrex), tramadol (Ultram), oxycodone (OxyContin), hydrocodone (Vicodin, Norco), morphine (MS Contin, Kadian), fentanyl (Duragesic), amitriptyline (Elavil), nortriptyline (Pamelor), duloxetine (Cymbalta), venlafaxine (Effexor), gabapentin (Neurontin), pregabalin (Lyrica), topiramate (Topamax), valproic acid (Depakote), sumatriptan (Imitrex), rizatriptan (Maxalt), erenumab (Aimovig), fremanezumab (Ajovy), galcanezumab (Emgality), methotrexate (Rheumatrex, Trexall), hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil), leflunomide (Arava), tofacitinib (Xeljanz), etanercept (Enbrel), infliximab (Remicade), adalimumab (Humira), capsaicin cream (Qutenza), lidocaine patches (Lidoderm), corticosteroids (e.g., Prednisone), bisphosphonates (e.g., Fosamax, Boniva), cannabinoids (e.g., Marinol, Epidiolex), ketamine (Ketalar), NSAIDs (various).
Track any of your chronic pain treatments and discover how they correlate with changes in your symptom severity levels.
Examples of treatments for pain that can be tracked in Bearable include: Physical therapy, occupational therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), acupuncture, chiropractic care, massage therapy, yoga, tai chi, mindfulness meditation, biofeedback, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), heat therapy, cold therapy, hydrotherapy, exercise programs, pain education programs, support groups, art therapy, music therapy, aromatherapy, posture correction, assistive devices (e.g., braces, canes, orthotics), wearable pain management devices, behavioral therapy for coping strategies.
Whatever treatment program you’re on, you can track it in Bearable.
Track common self-management habits for chronic pain, such as: Stretching routines, stress management techniques, pacing activities, maintaining a sleep routine, dietary changes, hydration, avoiding known triggers, deep breathing exercises, relaxation techniques, guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, lifestyle modifications, weight management, physical activity tailored to abilities, environmental modifications (e.g., reducing light or noise).
With Bearable, you can create and track unlimited custom self-care and self-management tactics and view how they correlate with changes in your symptom severity.
💡 You can also create and track unlimited custom triggers, symptoms, medications, treatments, and self-management tactics.
Information for this section was sourced from Clevland Clinic, John Hopkins Medicine, WebMD, Mayo Clinic, and The NHS.
“I tried symptom tracking a few times before using Bearable. For my migraine, I had to record symptoms for the doctor to get some kind of treatment. They always asked “How many days in the month did you have migraine symptoms?” But it was very hard for me to answer that before using Bearable.
Bearable also helps with finding correlations. My doctor has always said “you have to do cardio it helps with your migraines.” So I got an indoor bike and I was tracking the effect of using it on my migraine symptoms. It doesn’t do anything. It’s good for my legs and my general health but it’s not like it suddenly makes my migraines go away.
The next time my doctor asks “Are you doing enough cardio” I can say “Yeah, but it’s not helping and I can show you that it’s not working [with Bearable]”.
Having suffered with a chronic migraine since 2018, I know all too well the frustration of coming out of an appointment with my doctor or therapist knowing that I hadn’t been able to give them a complete picture of my migraine symptoms.
Often these interactions lead to no diagnosis, a very tentative diagnosis, or at worst, a misdiagnosis. From personal experience, this sets you off a wild goose chase. You go from consultant to consultant in search of answers and spend hours on Dr. Google.
In the end, I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. I started tracking my mood, symptoms and habits, in the hope that it would help me to understand, and feel more in control of, my health. This is how the idea for the Bearable app was born.
Since 2020, Bearable has helped me to better understand and manage my symptoms as well has help me to improve how I communicate with my medical team.
Today, my mission is to give all patients the power to take control of their health and feel like themselves again. That’s why we continue to work with hundreds of online communities to seek the advice and feedback of people with chronic health conditions.
Because our mission is to help people, we try to create as many free resources as possible. Our free chronic pain worksheet helps you to track…
Note. When you tap the Download button you’ll be taken to Google Drive where you can tap the ‘Open with’ or Download icon (⬇) to save the symptom tracker worksheets to your device.
Managing chronic pain can feel like a full-time job, but you don’t have to tackle it alone. Chronic pain apps, also known as pain management apps or pain trackers, are here to help you take charge of your health in ways that were nearly impossible just a few years ago. Whether you’re curious about starting a pain journal or looking for an app to support your long-term pain management journey, here are the top 5 things you need to know.
Chronic pain isn’t random. By tracking your symptoms alongside daily activities like sleep, diet, exercise, and stress, these apps make it easier to identify triggers. Is your pain worse after certain foods? Does a lack of sleep lead to flare-ups? Apps like Bearable combine your data into charts and reports, so you can finally connect the dots and make informed choices about your health.
No two pain journeys are the same, and chronic pain apps understand that. Many offer customization options, so you can track what matters most to you—whether it’s migraine frequency, fibromyalgia flare-ups, or how effective your medications are. This personalized approach makes managing your condition feel more like a partnership and less like a guessing game.
We’ve all been there: sitting in a doctor’s office, trying to remember every detail of your symptoms. Pain trackers solve this by acting as a digital pain journal. With detailed records of your symptoms, triggers, and treatments, you can walk into appointments prepared and confident. It’s not just about telling your doctor how you’ve been—it’s about showing them.
Chronic pain often leads to mental fatigue, which can make it hard to stay consistent with self-care. Pain management apps include features like reminders for medications, stretches, or even mindfulness exercises. These gentle nudges can keep you on track without feeling overwhelming, giving you a sense of control over your day-to-day routine.
Let’s face it—living with chronic pain is exhausting. Pain tracker apps simplify the process of managing your condition, saving you time and energy. Whether you sync it with your fitness tracker, use it as a mental health check-in, or rely on it for weekly progress reports, these apps are designed to lighten the load so you can focus on living, not just coping.
If chronic pain feels like a constant uphill battle, the right pain tracker app can be a game-changer. It’s not just about tracking your symptoms—it’s about understanding them, taking back control, and making your life just a little bit easier. Whether you’re new to the idea or ready to dive in, starting a pain journal through a chronic pain app could be the first step toward better pain management.
Your ability to describe your pain correctly can have a big impact on your access to – and the type of – treatment you receive. However, finding the right words to describe the location, type, and severity of pain can be hard.
Our ‘How to describe pain’ worksheet combines useful aspects of the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale, the McGill Pain Questionnaire, and descriptions of pain from the Chronic Illness community – to help you describe your pain more accurately.
Yes, Bearable is a freemium app and our subscription is optional.
With Bearable, you can track unlimited symptoms, treatments, medications, and triggers for free. You can also identify changes in your chronic pain symptoms using weekly reports, timelines, calendars, and charts – all included in the free version of the Bearable app.
Bearable was designed so that people whose disposable income is affected by their chronic pain can still track and manage their health using the app for free. In fact, we’ve recently launched a sponsorship program that gifts free subscriptions to members of the Bearable community every month.
When you first sign-in to Bearable, you’ll be asked to pick the factors that you feel are most effecting your chronic pain symptoms. Then, over the course of the following week – and along with your symptom severity – you’ll track the days when these factors occur.
Once you’ve collected approximately 7 days of symptoms and factor data, we’ll show you correlations between your factors and changes in symptom severity.
Then, once you’ve collected more data – we recommend at least 30 days – you’ll be able to determine which factors might be negatively impacting your pain symptoms. At this point, most Bearable users then use this data to:
It’s also possible to create more granular, custom factors and these can help you to get a more detailed understanding of your triggers. For example, rather than tracking ‘Socialised’ you might begin to track ‘Chad’, ‘Karen’, and ‘Mom’.
Ultimately, Bearable gives you the tools to collect data about your triggers, so that you can better understand and manage your symptoms over time.
Many members of the Bearable community have told us that their main aim is to simply track symptoms over time. The main reasons for this are:
Yes, one of the primary reasons we created Bearable was to make communication with your Doctor, Therapist, and Medical team easier.
Whilst it’s possible to export all of your data in .csv format, we’ve also heard from members of the Bearable community that they:
There are a number of different ways to use Bearable and each of them can help you to manage your chronic pain symptoms in different ways.
Over 90% of Bearable members report that the app helps them to understand their symptoms better and over 75% report that Bearable helps them to feel more in control of their health.
There are a number of ways in which Bearable protects the privacy and security of our member’s data. These include:
If you have any questions or concerns about your data privacy, please contact us at support@bearable.app
What we’ve been told by our community of thousands of people with multiple chronic illnesses and hard-to-diagnose-conditions, is that Bearable is better than other chronic illness symptom tracker apps because:
You can read more about how Bearable compares to other leading Symptom and Mood trackers (like Careclinic and Daylio) and reviews of the app from people with BPD, ADHD, and Bipolar Disorder on our blog and user stories pages.
Just as important to us as it is to you
Unlike other companies, our main motivation will always be to help people. This is why we don’t sell your data, show in-app ads, and request as little PII data as possible.
Your data is encrypted and cannot be read by anyone but yourself. You have full control of your data and can export and/or delete everything from within the app at any time.
As a British company, we comply with EU/European data protection and privacy laws. This also means we’re not required to comply with data requests from US law enforcement.
Bearable is the number one symptom tracker (on iOS & Android) and pain tracker (on iOS) in the USA and helps thousands of people to feel more in control of the symptoms and traits of their chronic mental & physical health conditions and disorders each year. Bearable is recommended by Healthline, The US Pain Foundation, WebMD, Forbes, Vox, SELF Magazine, VerywellMind, PsychCentral, and Doctors and Therapists including; Psychiatrist Dr. Anthony Levinson, GP Dr Claire Ashley. Over 900,000 Bearable members have used the app to identify triggers, track changes in pain severity, and share chronic pain symptom data with doctors and therapists to aid with diagnosis and treatment. It’s not just a free pain tracker app – it’s also the best symptom tracker for anyone hoping to feel more in control of every aspect of their physical and mental health.
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