Track Symptom Severity, Frequency, and Duration

The default Symptoms section in Bearable uses a simple 0–4 severity scale (None, Mild, Moderate, Severe, Unbearable). But if you want more detail — like a 0–10 pain scale, how many times a symptom occurs, or how long it lasts — custom Health Measurements let you track all three. Here’s how.

Getting started

Before creating any custom Health Measurement, make sure the section is enabled:

1. 1. Tap customise homepage at the bottom of your home screen.
   2. Toggle Health Measurements on.

From there, the steps below all start the same way:

1. 1. Tap the … icon on the Health Measurements section.
   2. Tap Add/edit.
   3. Tap Create custom measurement.

Then follow the specific steps below depending on what you want to track.

Tracking Severity (e.g. a 0–10 pain scale)

If you’d like a more granular scale than Bearable’s default 0–4 Symptom severity, this is the option for you.

1. 1. Name your measurement, e.g. “Back Pain.”
   2. Select your scale, e.g. 0–10.
   3. Choose whether you want to see the Average, Total, or Latest score in your reports (you can change this anytime).
   4. Select decimal places — 0 for round numbers, or 2 for more precision.
   5. Choose an icon and save.

Tracking Frequency (how many times something happens)

This is ideal for symptoms that occur multiple times a day, like waking up, panic attacks, or migraines.

1. 1. Name your measurement, e.g. “Migraine episodes.”
   2. Select Count as the measurement type.
   3. Choose an icon and save.

You can then log an entry of 1 each time the symptom occurs and view your daily totals or averages in the Trends tab.

Tracking Duration (how long a symptom lasts)

If you want to know how long each episode of a symptom lasts, you can set up a Duration measurement.

1. 1. Name your measurement, e.g. “Migraine duration.”
   2. Select Duration as the measurement type.
   3. Choose an icon and save.

You’ll then be able to log the hours and minutes each time the symptom occurs.

Viewing your reports

For any custom Health Measurement:

• • Trends: Tap the … icon on the Health Measurements section, select graphs, then choose your metric.
  • Impacts: Tap the Impacts tab, tap Mood, then select your custom measurement to view correlations with your Factors.

A few tips

• • You can create separate measurements for Severity, Frequency, and Duration of the same symptom if you want the full picture — for example, “Migraine Severity,” “Migraine Count,” and “Migraine Duration.”
  • Custom Health Measurements are a premium feature, so you’ll need a Bearable Pro subscription to set these up.
  • Start with just one or two measurements for your top priority symptom rather than setting up everything at once — you can always add more later.