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Live Better with Pain Log

Many things can affect your pain. These can include stress, sleep, money worries, and even the weather. This log can help you track the everyday things that have an impact on your pain.

When you understand what makes your pain worse, you can begin to work on ways to reduce or deal with your pain “triggers.”

The more you know about how your body reacts, the more you can be in control. And being in better control can help you be less afraid and better able to manage your pain. We encourage you to fill out a chart out at the end of each day or several times a week. You also can print out a report and take it to your doctor visits. It can help you talk more openly with your healthcare provider so that together you can find ways to improve your quality of life.

http://theacpa.org/painlog/painlog.aspxDoes anyone do this? If so, did you learn anything from it? my doctor mentioned it once before but I have been so bad lately I am willing to do almost anything to learn what my triggers are and what helps and what doesn't. Back when I was trying to get things sorted out, I kept a pain/symptom log for about a year. Immensely helpful. I stopped keeping the log because the RA is well-controlled right now and other than remembering to take meds each day it's pretty much a non-issue. Jaz

please share.. what did you learn?

I registered and will try and keep up with this log.

Each time I see the RD I am asked to pick one of those darn smilie faces to show my pain level. I have the hardest time deciding which face to chose. Maybe at that particular moment (mid-day) I don't feel too bad. But, if it was early morning I would be stiff etc. Or maybe that day I don't feel too bad...but the past week I've had pain. I think it is just me - it reminds me of some of those questions on a test in school that I suspected were some type of trick questions and I would try and analyze them to death.

When I had to have injections in my hip recently they wanted to know my pain level before the injecction and immediately after the injection. If I was turned on my hip the pain was pretty bad, but if I was on my back it wasn't bad. Immediately after the injection I couldn't feel anything because my hip had been numbed from a shot. I struggle with an answer and get the feeling that I am failing a test of some sort. OK - I guess I failed the mental test, maybe I'm just nuts, ha ha.

This is my first time on this website and I signed up because I need info on Arthritis or whatever is going on with me. I have been having a lot of pain and yesterday it was all I could take!! I don't know for sure if this is osteo or if I have RA. I have been having knots pop up in different parts of my body, first on my ankle, my writsts, my fingers, my knees, my neck, my back and now I am having pain in my jaw. It seem to have locked up on me yesterday and I couldn't hardly eat. I know that everyone in my family thinks I am loosing my mind or that all the pain is in my head. I think even my doctor does too! Can arthritis pain move daily or could something else be going on? Please, if anyone has answer or simular pain please give me a holler!!!!gleaful,

Doesn't really sound like rheumatoid arthritis. I did a search for painful knots all over body and got lots of different answers. One that was predominant was fibromyalgia.

http://www.ehow.com/about_fibromyalgia-knots.html

But, that's just quessing. Click on the above link to read more.If this pain persists of course the best course is to see a physician. Good luck.

LEV