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Pain tracker addition

Pain tracker addition

I use the pain tracker a lot (sadly, I guess!), I thank you for putting it out!
But using it a lot also led me to discover that there are things lacking.
First, there are meds that are not there... I guess if the trackers were more easily customizable, like I saw asked in another suggestion thread, it would be resolved.
Mostly, body parts that hurt are lacking!
Today, for example, my teeth, throat and hips hurt, and I can't check any of them. If I want to note it, I have to either write it down in my journal and/or select another body part that fits (Gluteus maximus for the hips, neck for throat... I can't select anything for my teeth because "head" is already selected since I have a huge headache...).
I also have a problem with some body parts being pretty hard to select with the little squares, because of the way they are designed. For ex. since the squares are perfectly aligned with the window, but the body parts of the drawing are not, some only have a little triangle left. If I want to select the wrist, and if I want it to show visually on the image (and not need to read all the entries on the list to see that, on that particular day, my wrist hurt), I need to select both triangles of the wrist... And, still, it's pretty small. Maybe there could be another way to select body parts (circles, diamonds... a mix?) and maybe, too, it would be possible when clicking a body part, to have a choice, if that particular body part has multiple possibilities (ex. when clicking the mouth area, it would open a box with a choice between jaw, teeth, mouth, etc).
Or maybe clicking on a body part with multiple choices could bring up a pop-up window with the enlarge area, and it then would be easier to select the right one.
Maybe, when hovering over the pain map the name of the corresponding body part could appear?
Maybe once clicked the area selected could be circled on top of colored, so it would be even more visible.

I don't know if all this is possible, but I know it would make it much more precise and useful.
Thank you!
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Thanks for the suggestion. However, most of what you're suggesting would require a significant amount of rework on the tracker. We will likely introduce maps of the head and other body parts in the future so that you can track things at a more granular level, but we probably won't be redoing the existing body maps.

If you have specific medications or treatments you would like to add to the pain tracker, please let us know. We can add it for you. Our other posts have detailed why we are not letting members add their own at this time.

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