Symptom Severity Tracker

What the Symptom Severity Tracker does

The Symptom Severity Tracker lets you record how strong a single menopause or perimenopause symptom feels on a 1-to-10 scale and watch that one number move over days and weeks. You pick a symptom from a fixed list of seven — hot flashes, night sweats, mood, sleep, brain fog, joint pain, and vaginal dryness — drag a slider from 1 to 10, and log it. The tool stamps the entry with today's date automatically and keeps a running per-symptom history.

It differs from a general symptom journal in one specific way: instead of capturing many metrics in one daily snapshot, it isolates each symptom and draws its own trend so you can see whether that single thing is getting better or worse over time. Everything runs in your browser and is saved locally on your device, with no account, no login, and nothing sent to a server.

It is a self-tracking log, not a test or an assessment. It does not score your overall menopause status, estimate a stage, or suggest treatment. Its only job is to turn your own repeated ratings into a picture you can look at and, if you choose, bring to a conversation with a prescriber or clinician.

How to read your result

Each symptom you have logged gets its own mini bar chart. Bars run left to right from oldest to newest, showing up to the last 14 entries for that symptom, so the rightmost bars are your most recent ratings. Bar height is simply your severity as a share of 10 — a 10 is a full-height bar, a 3 is a low one. Read the shape, not any single bar: bars trending shorter over time mean your ratings are dropping, taller means rising.

The tool colors each bar by fixed severity bands so heavy days stand out at a glance. Ratings of 7 and above are red, 5 to 6 are amber, and 1 to 4 are green. These are the tool's own display thresholds, not a clinical grading of danger — a red bar means you rated that day a 7 or higher, nothing more.

Above each chart is the plain average of the entries shown for that symptom, rounded to one decimal. Use it as a rough anchor for a week or two, not a precise metric — with few entries a single rough day pulls the average up noticeably. The most useful reading comes from logging the same symptoms consistently over several weeks, then looking at whether the averages and bar heights are drifting down, holding steady, or climbing.

What the result is based on

Everything shown is computed from the ratings you enter — there is no model, dataset, or reference population behind it. When you log an entry, the tool records the symptom name, your 1-to-10 slider value, and the current date, and stores the list in your browser's local storage under a single key on your own device.

The trend view filters your entries down to one symptom, takes the most recent 14, reverses them into oldest-to-newest order, and draws a bar per entry with height proportional to severity and color set by the 7-and-above / 5-to-6 / 1-to-4 bands. The average is the ordinary mean of those displayed entries. That is the full extent of the math — no weighting, smoothing, or trend-line fitting.

What it cannot tell you

• The symptom list is fixed at seven items. You cannot add a custom symptom, rename one, or track anything outside hot flashes, night sweats, mood, sleep, brain fog, joint pain, and vaginal dryness.
• The trend chart shows only the most recent 14 entries per symptom. Older entries still exist in your list but drop off the chart, so it is a short-window view, not a full-history graph.
• Dates are recorded to the day, and there is no limit on entries per day. If you log the same symptom twice in one day, both appear as separate bars, and the average counts both — the tool does not merge or average within a day.
• The severity number is entirely your own subjective judgment with no calibration. A 6 today and a 6 next month are only as comparable as your own consistency, and the color bands are the tool's fixed display choice, not a medical severity scale.
• Data lives only in this one browser on this one device. Clearing site data, using private browsing, or switching phone or computer means the history is not there, and there is no cloud backup, sync, or built-in export file to hand to a clinician — you would share a screenshot at most.
• The tool records what you felt, never why. It does not link changes to medication, dose timing, menstrual cycle, sleep, or anything else, and it cannot diagnose, treat, or flag a symptom as urgent. Any rating that worries you belongs in a conversation with a healthcare professional.