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Three questions to find where you are after a vasectomy, and a plan you can print for your next appointment. Behind it: what normal healing looks like, the warning signs, how post-vasectomy pain syndrome is diagnosed, and every treatment side by side, with what the research actually says about each. Written by Mary Carol Jennings, MD, MPH, with Andre, who has been there, and every number is sourced.

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A cleaned-up descendant of the spreadsheet Flare grew out of. Thirty days are pre-built — three check-ins a day (morning, day, evening) — using the same five-level severity scale as the app, from none to severe, plus activities, medications, and a notes column.

• Dates fill themselves. Type your start date once; every day below computes its own. No copy-pasting rows.
• Yours, privately. "Make a copy" puts it in your own Google account. We never see your data.
• Doctor-friendly. Coarse severity levels and a consistent daily rhythm — the format that makes patterns visible across weeks.

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The spreadsheet is the manual version of what Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker does in a few seconds a day — with trends, weather context, and appointment-ready PDF reports built in. Free for iPhone, no account required.

One page, one month, two seconds a day. Thirty-one days across and the app's five named severity levels down — none to severe, tinted in Flare's colors — so a month of pen marks reads like the app's timeline. Under that: symptom rows you name in your own words, and a strip for activities and suspects.

• Rate the day as a whole. One mark per day in the row that fits. A blank day is unknown — not a good day.
• Ends in a sentence. "The month in counts" at the bottom turns the page into what you say at your appointment: days logged, moderate-or-worse days, the worst stretch, the suspect to test next month.
• Print and pin. Fridge, nightstand, the back of the bathroom door. US Letter and A4.

Download — US Letter or the A4 version →

Prints best in color (the severity rows are tinted) but works fine in black and white.

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The sheet is the paper version of what Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker does in two taps — with the counts, trends, and appointment-ready PDF reports worked out for you. Free for iPhone, no account required.

Ten minutes with a clinician, months of pain to explain, and your mind goes blank at "how have you been?" This is the page you fill in the night before — everything a clinician is listening for, in the order that makes the visit count.

• Say this first. Room at the top for your thirty seconds in your own words, with the ingredients listed: how long, what kind, where, how many moderate-or-worse days and which way that's going, the worst stretch and what it stopped, what's changed.
• The eight things. Where and whether it spreads, since when, the pattern, what it feels like (circle the words), how bad in counts rather than a bare number, what it stops you doing, better/worse, what's new — the dimensions every pain assessment covers, answered ahead of time.
• Everything you take, and your two questions. Medications and supplements with a "does it help?" column, and room for the two questions to ask before anything else.

Download — US Letter or the A4 version →

Pairs with the monthly diary above: the diary is the evidence, this page is the summary. Bring both.

Prefer it automatic?

Flare - Chronic Pain Tracker keeps your provider visits in one place and, with Pro, turns your log into a PDF report formatted for the appointment, with suggested questions drawn from your own data. Free for iPhone, no account required.