GI Monitor 1


Category: Medical
Price: $4.99 (iTunes)

Description:

GI Monitor from WellApps, Inc.

Do you know someone with Ulcerative Colitis or Crohn’s? There's an app for that! Developed by a Crohn’s patient with feedback from top Inflammatory Bowel Disease and GI specialists, GI Monitor helps patients easily track symptoms and report their overall status back to the physician. As a result, physicians can tweak treatments accordingly with more effective results.

How it works:

Its simple. Whenever you use the bathroom, just log the event and details. GI Monitor will do the rest. Using the data you’ve entered, GI Monitor will create an “overall status” on a scale of 1-10. Simply tell the doc your overall status for the date range of any treatment, and (s)he will be able optimize treatments to get you feeling your best! You can easily access detailed logs and also email a report to your doctor.

Why I created this application:

As someone who has had Crohn’s for 15 years, I have had my share of flare-ups. Each time, the doctors tried a treatment, asked me how I was feeling and then tweaked treatments to get me better. However, I was not great about keeping a diary, for a 2 reasons.

1. I didn’t want to carry it around all the time
2. It was difficult (I'd forget and and I didn't like writing out detailed notes).

GI Monitor for the iPhone attempts to solve these 2 issues and help patients give more accurate data to their physicians.

What about food?

As all patients with GI conditions know, diet can affect symptoms. After a lot of thought, I decided to keep food tracking out of this application. Why? Good question. I kept food tracking out for the following 3 reasons:

1. I LOVE food. And I have found that constantly tracking everything I eat during a flare up causes me more stress and symptoms than the food itself.
2. Most GI patients know the foods that worsen their symptoms. A constant reminder of this seemed unnecessary.
3. After consulting many GI docs, I found that a patient’s overall status was the most important piece of information for a good diagnosis and effective treatment.

I do, however, realize that diet affects symptoms. And I plan to monitor feedback from users of this application. A diet tracker could be added if enough patients and/or physicians think it will be helpful.
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