Six months of MS. Two minutes to explain it.
Symptoms shift day to day, and most of them are invisible to everyone but you. MS Buddy keeps the record as it happens, in your words, so your neurologist gets six months of what happened instead of a two-minute summary from memory.
A look inside the app
Six real screens from the app, drawn small.
Log it in the moment
Logging a symptom takes about ten seconds. You pick what it is, how it feels, where it is and how strong it is, and note when it started. There are more than twenty ways to describe how something feels, because pins and needles and a burning sensation are not the same thing.
Know what a day costs
Energy is a daily budget. Every activity has a cost, from a shower to a work day, and so do the bad nights and the flares. Log what you did and the battery shows what is left, so you can decide what to skip before you run out instead of after.
See what your nights are doing
Connect Apple Health on your iPhone and your sleep comes in on its own, with light, deep and REM stages, next to the nights you rated yourself. Switch between a week, a month and three months to see whether the bad stretch is a blip or a trend.
Say what you ate
Type what you ate in plain words, like "two eggs and toast", or scan the barcode on the packet. Meals, drinks and diet-plan goals sit in one place, next to the symptom log, so you can see whether what you eat lines up with how you feel.
Say why walking was hard
A step count tells you how far you went. It cannot tell you that it was 90 degrees, that you leaned on the cane by lunchtime, or that you took the lift because the stairs were not happening. So the app asks. Rate the day, note the aid, the distance and any falls, then tick what made it hard and what it cost you. If you wear an Apple Watch, your steps, step length and walking asymmetry arrive on their own.
Walk in with one clear page
The doctor report sums up the last month, three months or six. It shows how often each symptom showed up, how strong it was and how long it lasted, along with your sleep, energy, heat and mobility logs. Email it to yourself before the appointment or just show it on your phone.
The questions we wish we’d asked
These started as our own list: the things we forgot to bring up, and the ones we were too rattled to ask out loud. The rest are the questions people with MS ask each other online when there is nobody else to ask. There are more than 200 now, grouped by what is going on with you. Tick the ones you want and email yourself the list the night before you go.
Everything it tracks
MS does not show up the same way in any two people. Heat ends the day early for one person. For another it is brain fog that nobody at work believes in, or a bladder that rewrites the afternoon, or legs that are fine until the third flight of stairs. So every tile here is its own tracker, and the ones you switch on are the ones that match what you live with. The rest stay out of your way.
- Mobility
- Energy
- Sleep
- Stress
- Bladder & Bowel
- Meal Plan
- Weather
- Log Food
- Track Drinks
- Reminders
- Heat Log
- Thinking & Memory
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Latest MS research
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MS glossary
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