HEALTHMINDER Personal Wellness Journal. Health & Wellness Diary,Medical notebook,Symptoms Log. Track health, weight, medications, vitamins, blood pressure, sugar levels, overhealth and wellness. Spiral-bound – March 28, 2009

I am very impressed with the journal. I have already started using it today. It is compact enough to carry with me and I like the format. The only thing I am going to add notes for other information by using sticky notes.

This is my second HealthMinder Personal Wellness Journal. I have a number of chronic health conditions and I'm appealing a denial for disability, so it helps to keep daily track of my symptoms, location and type of pain, medications taken, vitamins and supplements taken, food and drink ingested, and so forth to hopefully help myself, my doctors, and my attorney. I really like this journal.Part One - Getting Started has an introduction, tips for using your HealthMinder, and symptoms glossary. Part Two - Daily Record of Conditions & Habits has journal pages for 95 days. Part Three - Additional Health Records has personal medical history, medical tests, insurance and pharmacies, healthcare providers, purchase record, notes and questions, reference calendar, and other journals and reorder form. At the end of the journal is a vinyl utility pocket that you can put records or whatever in.This is a very well-thought out, organized, and thorough journal. In the daily record of conditions and habits, each day is spread over two pages.The first page has a space for the date, day, today's weather (hi/low/and conditions;) AM/PM for: weight, temperature, blood pressure, and sugar level. Also included is: hours slept last night (number of hours, sound or restless;) naps taken today (how many, total hours;) drugs/medications (AM/PM, quantity, description, strength;) vitamins/herbs (AM/PM, quantity, description, strength;) physical activity (activity, hours/min;) pain/discomfort/skin changes to be marked on a figure of a man front and back (I put x's where I have pain and symptoms on the figure;) a pain scale to note next to the figure of where you marked pain and symptoms (1-2 mild, 3-5 moderate, 6-8 intense, 9-10 severe;) and In general today I felt: good/fair/poor.The second page has today's conditions and symptoms where you explain your conditions or symptoms in the following areas: ears/eyes/nose, mouth/throat, head/neck/back, shoulders/arms/hands, chest/heart, respiratory system, digestive system, hips/legs/feet, male/female organs, skin, mood, and other. There's also a section that you record what you eat, drink, and anything else you monitor intake of (fat, calories, sodium, sugar, protein, etc;) breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, and you can total up whatever it is you are monitoring in column A and column B. There is also a comments section for you to mention anything else.I get good use out of daily monitoring my health, and I am so glad I found this journal to make it easy. I thought I was just going to have to write stuff down in a notebook, but this has everything that I need in an easy to use and easy to see (for tracking) format. I highly recommend this journal for anyone that needs to keep track of their health for any reason. Good luck, and thank you for reading my review.

Overall this is a great, comprehensive journal. This journal has roughly 76 days worth of pages for tracking (manually counted). The back contains pages for medical history, tests, insurance, providers, purchases and notes. I searched high and low and this was the only journal I located on Amazon that was the closest to meeting my needs. It allows me to track my physical status, meds, activity, pains, symptoms and nutrition. This way I can better visualize any trends or changes that may relate to changes in my meds, activity level or diet. It helps remind me of things to discuss with my doctor. The body diagram helps with quickly noting and referencing pain locations and levels. I rated with 4 stars because the area to make additional notes each day is very small. If you want to go into detail on a topic or note something not covered, it's very limited.

No batteries required! Let's you practice actual handwriting or printing, too! (And some health issues can show up in your handwriting.)Places for pain, food and drinks you've consumed and when (extremely important!), Blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, weight, medications and supplements, an area for notes, too.I was fortunate to meet the author, who had health issues, and who was tired of looking for a good heath journal, years ago. She designed her own for herself, and wanted to help others track their health.These books are great to log health and eating, as well as for tracking down allergies with delayed reactions and adverse food, pollen and other allergies, so you can avoid problems, improve your diet, balance imbalances, keep track of your weight, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, sugars, etc.A great resource to fill in and share with your doctor, nutritionist, NP, etc.Extremely helpful in problem solving, or tracking what works for you in your diet, weather, exercise, and so on.Everyone should have one ofthese!My old doctor was impressed with one of mine and he ordered cases of them for all his patients. He told me he used them for charting info for later research, too.These books are VERY nice to have around.

This is great for anyone who has complicated health issues or someone who just wants to improve in one area. You can use as much or as little as you'd like- as often as you like.As someone who needed detailed information for a complicated medical condition- this was incredibly valuable. On days when I wasn't feeling well at all, I didn't have to remember what to record because the prompts were already there!There's also a picture graph for pain & and area for meducations/supplements.I've tried SEVERAL health trackers both online and irl-- this one is by far the best.