Do you have a TRACKER SUCCESS STORY you'd like to share with us? ......

[MH Community Mgr]

Hi All,

Do you have a TRACKER SUCCESS STORY you'd like to share with us?

If so, we'd love to hear from you via PM.  Here's my PM address:   MH Community Mgr   --

Also, feel free to post below this thread - we always enjoy hearing how our trackers help our members!

If you haven't visited our new Health Tools (on the toolbar above), here's a link to many resources including our MS Tracker:

MS TRACKER:  http://www.medhelp.org/user_trackers/gallery/ms

HEATLH TOOS:
http://www.medhelp.org/health_tools


Best,

Cheryl
MH Community Mgr

[supermum_ms]

I'm thinking the same as jensequitur, and i think it would also work better if there was a scale or range, something to indicate how good or bad it is. For example when my episode began, the intensity of the issues I was dealing with were far worse than when it was resolving, though to look at my tracker you'd not know that.

I actually found it off putting because although i knew i was improving the tracker hardly showed the difference or the work i'd been putting in to get those improvements. It seems very black & white, you do or you dont and it can get missleading. There is a big difference (in my mind lol) within the catagories, the paresthesia I experience during an episode ranges from disabling to a minor annoyance.

As a simple visual i ended up printing off a blank female body image and marking it in different colours for each issue, as things improved I used lighter shades. In time i could easily see the improvements and issues that were still problematic. It gave me the insentives i sometimes needed, light at the end of the tunnel so to speak.  

I also think sometimes my mental function was too discombodulated to make sense of the tracker, i needed it simpe lol.

Cheers........JJ  

[jensequitur]

I've talked before how the MS tracker doesn't really talk about all the symptoms - to really be useful, it needs to be updated.  For example - pain isn't really good enough - is it pain from paresthesia?  Or pain from spasticity?  Or pain from spasms?

[sllowe]

Hi Carol,

Your on the right track Carol!

Miss you,
Shell

[grannyhotwheels]

Is that the thing where we track our pain and other areas of our MS?  If I'm right your welcome to look at mine.  My doctor thinks it's a wonderful idea.  I started it a long time ago and he wanted me to bring in a print out each month but I got lazy about it.  So now I'm trying to get started on it again..

One of the things it helps me the most with is seeing on paper what I did before the pain started, did I eat something that kept me awake, and the list goes on.

Please let me know if I'm on the right "track" here.  lol

I'll be praying,
Carol

[sllowe]

I know we have members using the trackers.

Anyone care to show off /share your successful MS tracker? I'd like to see it too - um, hum. Because I've been wanting to use one for a long while now but have put it off.

Do tell!
-Shell