The Epilepsy Foundation My Seizure Diary is a self-management tool for people with seizures and epilepsy. This resource focuses on self-monitoring and tracking seizures and other symptoms, managing medication and other therapies, recognizing triggers and health events that may affect seizures and wellness, and communicating with your care providers.
Start your diary by choosing the right account type. Select "Diary Owner" if you are a person with epilepsy, select "family member/caregiver" if you are a family member or caregiver who wants to read or add information to another person’s diary or "clinician" if you are a clinician who will be viewing a diary of a person with epilepsy.
In the Epilepsy Foundation My Seizure Diary, it is important to first create your profile and what your typical seizures look like. This will allow you to use the diary to track your seizures on a regular basis.
In the Epilepsy Foundation My Seizure Diary, it is important to keep track of all the medicines you take. This information can be entered in the "My Medicine" page under About Me. Once you create your medicine profile, you can track if any are missed and if any side effects happen. This gives you important information to share with your health care team.
A good medicine list will help you keep track of details, such as the strength of each pill, how much and when you take it and more. Take time to set up these details for each medicine entered in My Medicine Profile. Then show your doctor or nurse how you have entered it. Revisit this section to keep it up to date after changes in medicines have been made.
Now that you have set up your profile, the Epilepsy Foundation My Seizure Diary can be used to track seizures, medicine use, side effects and much more. This can help you learn more about your epilepsy and make sure your health care team does too!
The diary view also lets you track how you've taken your medicine , your side effects, triggers, mood and other events each day. When you have gone thru this, start monitoring your epilepsy and health!