INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING THE DAILY

FIBROMYALGIA AND CHRONIC FATIGUE

SYMPTOM CHART

You basically use it like a graph, to chart different symptoms you are having throughout a week. Being able to do this will help you talk to your health providers and show them how and when your symptoms occur, and at what levels. Use the back of the page to make notes to yourself about your week - sort of a mini diary of events, activities, exposures to chemicals or foods, and stresses that might be affecting your Fibromyalgia or your chronic fatigue.

On the outside column, there are body shapes for each day of the week, and at the bottom of the page are the codes for what kind of pain you are experiencing. So you would put an A for Aching at the base of the neck if that is the symptom for that area for that day.

Then there are boxes for different kinds of issues. Some of them you would just put a dot across from the level, from 1 to 5, and by the day, and then connect them to see a graph of how your week went for that particular issue.

Other boxes have codes near them you can use if you want to pin the information down a bit more, for instance, for the Daily Irritability, Daily Body Sensitivities and Daily Depression Boxes, you might want to make note of headaches or other problems by using the codes beneath those boxes in place of the dots - in some cases using more than one for a single dot to indicate you were having more than one symptom that day.

There are separate codes under the Daily Activity boxes, and one set for the sleep issues you might have. You can get a better idea by printing out a copy of the PRINTABLE VERSION, and taking a look at the actual wording. Please feel free to print this out and use it to digitally or cut and paste a new version that is more attuned with what issues you yourself want to come up with.

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