MyPain

Switzerland

Pain Diary

The flexible assistant for documenting your pain

Dynamic entry of your pain intensity

Localisation and description of the type of pain

Graph showing the course of your pain

About

About MyPain

The helpful app for documenting your pain

MyPain, the flexible assistant for documenting your pain, was developed by Absolute Development AG with the kind support of Pfizer AG. With MyPain you can immediately and easily start documenting the course of your pain.

Why does it make sense to keep a pain diary?

The pain diary is an important accompaniment to treatment for anyone affected by pain and a great help to doctors. On the one hand, the patient learns about his/her pain by keeping a pain diary while, on the other hand, the pain documentation is a valuable aid in discussions with doctors. It enables monitoring the effects of pain on everyday life and the patient’s accompanying treatments. Pain no longer dominates the daily routine. Instead, the patient regains the initiative to actively participate in life.

How does the MyPain App work?

MyPain is an app that is available for Apple and Android smartphones. It helps patients document their pain. By keeping a pain diary, the effects of pain on everyday life and the accompanying therapeutic measures can be monitored, which can increase the chances of successful treatment. MyPain helps you with the daily documentation of your pain, allowing you to enter the pain intensity in the app three times a day at specific times. In addition, you can record the location and type of pain, as well as your intake of medication. Once a day, you can also document the effects of the pain on your everyday life.

A notable feature of the app is its ease of use. With just one click, you can call up a graph showing the course of your pain and export it if you wish. This documentation can help you during pain discussions with your doctor.

MyPain can immediately be downloaded free of charge from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. It is available in German, English and French.

MyPain functions at a glance:

Dynamic entry of your pain intensity
Localisation and description of the type of pain
Documentation of your medication intake
Recording the effects of pain on your everyday life
Graph showing the course of your pain

If you would like additional information or have any questions, please contact us at: contact@absolute.ch.

Startscreen

1 Pain scale

You can select three different times that suit you to record the intensity of your pain. This is done using the three main scales ranging from “No pain” (green) to “Extreme” (red). The pain intensity can be recorded on the current day only.

2 Medication intake

Document your intake of medication using the red “Medication” button. When you take medicine and then document it, the medication icon turns green; if no medication is recorded, then the icon is grey.

3 Quality of life

Record the effects of pain on your everyday life. Choosing the red “Quality of life” button in the upper left-hand corner takes you to the corresponding screen. If you have successfully recorded and saved the effects, then the button has a green border. The “Quality of life” is recorded once a day.

4 Menu

The “Menu” button in the upper right-hand corner allows you to call up statistics, data export, settings or the legal details for the app.

Quality of life

1 Effects of the pain

Record the effects of pain on your everyday life using the four scales, from “Fully applies” (green) to “Does not apply at all” (red).

2 Locations of the pain

With the “Pain location” function, you can tap to specify the painful parts of your body. Some parts of the body can be assigned to the left (L) or right (R) side by using the “L / R” buttons.

3 Type of pain

You can enter the type of pain by making a selection from an extensive list, and you can choose more than one. The “-“ button closes the list and the “+” button opens it.

The “statistics function” provides you with a graph showing the course of your pain and the intake of recorded medications, as well as the quality of life data for the selected day (blue). To select a day, just tap the corresponding date. You can move forward or backward on the timeline by “swiping” (to the right or to the left) on the graph.

2 Settings

Under settings, you can specify the number of pain scales used and the reminder time.

3 Medication settings

You can register the medications that you use here.

Terms of Use

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1. Use of the website
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2. Content
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You will find information about how we process personal data resulting from use of this website in our Privacy Policy.

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Private Policy

Privacy Policy

The following informs you about the information we collect about you, how this information is used and how you can prevent this information from being used.

Collection and use of personal data

Absolute Development AG does not collect any personal details e.g. names, addresses, e-mail addresses etc. on this website.

Other types of information are collected for statistical purposes and analysed anonymously, for example your IP address, domain name, date and time of access or the name of the website accessed. Analysing this information helps us adapt our services and presentation.

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Our website uses “cookies”. These are text files that are stored on your computer and are used to analyse your use of the website.

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). The cookie generates information about your use of this website (including your IP address) and this is transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is stored. Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website to compile reports about website activity for the website operators and to provide other services associated with website and Internet use. Google is entitled to pass this information on to third parties, provided this is prescribed by legal regulations, or have this data processed on Google’s behalf. Google, in association with Google Analytics, has declared that Google may not under any circumstances link your IP address with any other data that is stored by Google. The purpose of the information we collect using this technology is to improve our website.

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By using this website, you agree to Google using your data collected in the way described above and for the above-mentioned purpose.

Amendments

Any amendments to this data privacy statement will be published on this page.

Additional information

Should you have any further questions about the handling of your personal data, or if you would like to know whether any of your personal data is being processed, please contact: Absolute Development AG, contact@absolute.ch.

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