Chronic fatigue energy log: a daily record of energy, sleep and symptoms
If you live with ME/CFS or chronic fatigue, you are often asked to keep track of your energy. The useful version is one line a day: how much energy you had, what you did with it, and how you felt the day after.
What to rate
- Energy, 0 to 10, once a day at the same time.
- Sleep, in hours, and whether it felt refreshing, as a 0 to 10 if that is easier.
- Your main symptoms, 0 to 10 each: fatigue, brain fog, muscle pain, sore throat, dizziness, or whatever yours are, named the same way every day.
- Pain, as its own number.
What to note
- The day's activity in a few words: "two hours of errands", "worked from bed", "a visit".
- Payback days: if a day after an activity was worse, say so in the note. Your clinician reads the pattern; the log only has to hold it.
- Anything prescribed, as you took it.
Keep it going
- Log every day, including the good ones; the good days are what the bad days are compared to.
- Short notes. One line is a record; a paragraph is a chore you will stop doing.
- If your clinician has talked about pacing, ask what they want in the log and keep to that.
How Plainlog does it
Plainlog has energy, sleep and pain built in, plus your own symptom names on a 0 to 10 row each, and a note. A day takes about ten seconds and "Same as yesterday" covers a stable one. Trends shows 7-day and 30-day bars per symptom; the monthly report is one page you can print. Plainlog records; it does not interpret or advise.
Price: Free for 14 days, then $14.99 once. Everything stays on your device.
Printable energy log (two weeks)
Print it with your browser (Ctrl+P or Cmd+P); only the template prints. Or keep it in Plainlog, which fills it in for you.
| Date | Energy 0–10 | Sleep (h) | Fatigue 0–10 | Brain fog 0–10 | Pain 0–10 | What I did today | Taken, as prescribed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Filled in: an example
Fictional people and entries, to show the level of detail that helps.
| Date | Energy 0–10 | Sleep (h) | Fatigue 0–10 | Brain fog 0–10 | Pain 0–10 | What I did today | Taken, as prescribed | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 7 Sep | 3 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | Two hours of errands | — | Rested all afternoon |
| Tue 8 Sep | 2 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 5 | Stayed home | — | Payback from Monday |
| Wed 9 Sep | 5 | 7.5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | Worked from bed, one call | — | Better by evening |
Plainlog records what you enter and reports it back. It does not diagnose, interpret, suggest treatment or calculate anything about medication. It is a notebook, not a clinician.