Symptom tracking is one of the most useful things you can do when living with a post-viral condition, and also one of the hardest to sustain. This Google Sheets symptom diary is designed to be simple enough to fill in daily, while generating the kind of structured record that is useful for spotting patterns and for clinical appointments.
The diary covers four symptom domains (fatigue, breathlessness, head pain, and cognitive function), each scored daily on a simple scale. It automatically calculates rolling averages so that gradual trends become visible even when day-to-day scores fluctuate.
This kind of structured record is particularly useful when testing a new intervention. A subjective sense that things might be a bit better is hard to evaluate; a diary that shows a consistent shift in your rolling average over three weeks is much more informative. It is also useful for appointments, giving your clinician a concrete summary rather than a verbal account from memory.
How to use this template
Click the button below to open the template in Google Sheets. Because it is a shared template, you will not be able to edit it directly. To get your own editable copy, go to File → Make a copy in the Google Sheets menu. This saves a version to your own Google Drive that only you can see and edit. The original template is not affected.
You do not need to share any data with anyone. Once you have made your copy, it is entirely private to you.
Open the symptom diary template →If you are also tracking HRV and resting heart rate, the HRV tracker pairs well with this diary for looking at correlations between objective markers and how you feel.