POTS symptom log to bring to your doctor
If you live with POTS or another form of dysautonomia, you are often asked how your days have been since the last visit. A simple daily log turns "it has been bad" into a page your clinician can read in a minute.
What to record
- Your usual symptoms, 0 to 10 each. Lightheadedness, fatigue, brain fog, palpitations, nausea: whichever are yours, named the same way every day.
- Sleep, energy and pain. Three numbers for context.
- Readings you take yourself, if your clinician asked for them. For example a lying and standing heart rate from your own device, written down as a note with the time.
- Anything different about the day. Heat, a long stand, illness, travel, your cycle, a change in what you were prescribed.
Keep it to what you will actually do
On a bad day, a long form does not get filled in. Pick the few things your clinician cares most about and record those every day, even on good days.
A checklist before your appointment
- Bring at least four weeks of entries.
- Mark the days you want to talk about.
- Write down your two or three questions at the top.
How Plainlog does it
Plainlog logs your own symptoms on a 0 to 10 row each, plus sleep, energy and pain, in about ten seconds. It does not measure heart rate or anything else: type any readings you took into the day's note and they appear in the report. Pick a month and share one page your doctor will read.
Plainlog records what you enter and reports it back. It does not diagnose or interpret.
Price: Free for 14 days, then $14.99 once. Everything stays on your device.
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.