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In the Know

Stay In the Know: Real-Time Updates for My Medical Journal Readers

The Special Edition of My Medical Journal includes access to real-time online updates for common and uncommon symptoms. The journal gives you structure. The online updates help keep the information current. Use this resource hub for current terminology updates, bonus notes, tracking tools, safety resources, videos, and appointment-prep forms.

Current Resources

Current Update

PCOS Has Been Renamed PMOS

PCOS is now being called PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. The updated name better reflects that this condition is not only about ovarian cysts.

  • Hormones and menstrual cycles
  • Ovulation and fertility
  • Insulin resistance and metabolic health
  • Skin, hair growth, mood, and long-term health patterns

During the transition, providers, labs, insurance systems, patient portals, and older research may still use PCOS. My Medical Journal uses both terms where helpful: PMOS, formerly known as PCOS.

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This One Is On the House

Free PMOS Privacy-Conscious Tracking Sheet

I created a complimentary fillable tracking sheet to help readers document PMOS/PCOS-related symptoms without requiring sensitive identifying information.

  • Track cycle changes and symptom patterns
  • Prepare provider questions before appointments
  • Record labs, vitals, treatment changes, and follow-up needs
  • Avoid entering name, date of birth, address, insurance details, or medical record numbers

If information is typed into the fillable PDF and saved, that information remains in the reader’s local copy. It does not submit information to My Medical Journal.

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Bonus Note

Pregnancy Later in Life During Perimenopause

Pregnancy can still happen during perimenopause if ovulation is still occurring. This bonus note explains unexpected fertility, late-stage cycle changes, PMOS/PCOS considerations, and what to track.

  • Irregular cycles do not always mean no ovulation
  • Past infertility does not always rule out later pregnancy
  • Pregnancy later in life may carry higher medical risks
  • Tracking helps readers bring clearer information to a provider
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Giveaway + Updates

My Medical Journal Giveaway & Reader Updates

Use this card for current giveaways, reader announcements, new releases, and bonus resources.

  • Current giveaway announcements
  • New free worksheets and tools
  • Special Edition access notes
  • App, e-book, and product updates
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Watch: How to Use My Medical Journal

Watch practical walkthroughs and medical advocacy videos that explain how to track symptoms, organize questions, and prepare for appointments.

  • Short how-to videos
  • Medical advocacy reminders
  • Journal walkthroughs
  • Appointment preparation tips
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Free Form

Quick Daily Symptom Log

Track symptoms, timing, severity, possible triggers, and follow-up notes without losing the pattern.

  • Symptom name and timing
  • Severity and changes
  • Possible triggers
  • Notes for provider follow-up
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Free Fillable Worksheet

One-Page Emergency Medical Summary

Keep emergency contacts, care preferences, allergies, medical alerts, chronic symptoms, current medications, and urgent symptom details in one portrait-style fillable worksheet.

  • Patient snapshot and emergency contact
  • Preferred hospital, provider, pharmacy, and insurance notes
  • Conditions, diagnoses, allergies, and medical alerts
  • Medications, supplements, symptoms, vitals, and what providers need to know
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Provider Tool

Recommend a Doctor

Share a positive provider recommendation so visitors can find doctors who listen, explain, follow up, and provide thoughtful care.

  • Provider name and specialty
  • Location and contact details
  • Patient experience highlights
  • Public board review before display
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Special Edition

Real-Time Online Updates With Your Journal

The Special Edition includes access to real-time online updates for common and uncommon symptoms and appointment-prep resources.

  • Common and uncommon symptom updates
  • New terminology updates
  • Tracking sheets and prep tools
  • Self-advocacy education
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Safety Resource

Safety & Wellbeing Check-In

The “Are You Safe?” resource is now available as an improved guided fillable safety and abuse-support form. Use it to pause, reflect, document concerns, review guided safety prompts, and identify next steps when someone feels unsafe, unsure, dismissed, controlled, threatened, or emotionally overwhelmed.

  • Relationship, emotional, physical, and environmental safety
  • Support planning and trusted-contact notes
  • Questions to consider before seeking additional help
  • Domestic violence interview video access
  • 988 Lifeline information for self-harm thoughts, suicidal thoughts, or emotional crisis

Safety note: This website and form are not monitored in real time. If you are in immediate danger, call 911. If you are thinking about suicide, self-harm, or are in emotional crisis, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.

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Interview

Yushima Cherry Burks Domestic Violence Interview

Watch Yushima Cherry Burks speak about domestic violence, safety, support, and the importance of guided safety planning. This interview connects with the Safety & Wellbeing Check-In resource for people who need a gentle place to start.

  • Domestic violence awareness
  • Safety and support planning
  • Connection to the fillable safety form
  • Clear crisis-resource reminders
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Forms & Free Tools

Open a form without leaving the homepage. If an embedded form does not load on a phone, use the new-tab button inside the form window.

Free One-Page Emergency Medical Summary

This portrait-style fillable worksheet helps organize the health details that may matter before an appointment, urgent care visit, ER visit, or emergency situation.

It includes patient snapshot details, emergency contacts, care preferences, allergies, medical alerts, chronic symptoms, medications, supplements, current symptom episode notes, vitals, and what EMS or providers may need to know.

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Educational disclaimer: My Medical Journal tools are for organization, education, appointment preparation, and supportive self-reflection only. They do not diagnose, treat, provide legal advice, provide emergency monitoring, or replace emergency care, professional medical advice, mental health care, domestic violence advocacy, or crisis support. If you may be experiencing a medical emergency or immediate danger, call 911 or seek immediate assistance. If you are thinking about suicide, self-harm, or are in emotional crisis, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.

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Learn How to Use My Medical Journal

Watch quick walkthroughs, practical how-to videos, and simple guidance for using My Medical Journal to track symptoms, prepare for appointments, organize questions, and follow up with more confidence.

Use the buttons below to subscribe to The My Medical Journal YouTube channel, visit the channel directly, and watch practical tutorials for using My Medical Journal to track symptoms, prepare for appointments, organize questions, and follow up with more confidence.

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Safety & abuse support

Safety & Wellbeing Check-In

A supportive safety reflection tool for people who feel unsafe, unsure, controlled, threatened, dismissed, or emotionally overwhelmed.

Before using this form, read this safety note

If you are in immediate danger, call 911. Do not wait for a website, form, email, or downloaded document if your safety is at risk.

If you are thinking about suicide, self-harm, or are in emotional crisis, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.

This website and the Safety & Wellbeing Check-In form are not monitored in real time. They are supportive organization tools only. They do not replace emergency services, legal advice, domestic violence advocacy, medical care, therapy, or crisis support.

  • Use a safe device and browser when possible.
  • Consider whether someone else can see your screen, browser history, downloads, or shared accounts.
  • Save or print only if it is safe for you to keep a copy.
  • Share details only with trusted support people, advocates, or professionals.
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Yushima Cherry Burks Domestic Violence Interview

Watch Yushima Cherry Burks speak about domestic violence, safety, support, and the importance of guided safety planning. If the video does not load inside the website, use the button below to open it directly on YouTube.

If the video does not play inside the website, use the button below to open it directly on YouTube.

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Open the Fillable Safety & Wellbeing Check-In Form

The fillable form opens securely in a separate browser tab. You can complete, save, download, or print it through Adobe Acrobat.

Open Safety Form 988 Lifeline Watch Interview

For education, support planning, and organization only. This resource does not replace emergency services, legal guidance, domestic violence advocacy, medical care, therapy, or crisis response.

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Symptom Tracker - Quick Daily Log

Use the same tracker flow from the medical journal page while keeping visitors on www.mymedicaljournal.com.

Track symptoms without losing the pattern

This daily log helps visitors notice symptoms, patterns, possible triggers, and changes over time. The embedded form keeps the tracker questions in their original order.

Tracker Journals

Privacy note: Do not enter emergency information, passwords, or highly sensitive medical details into public website forms. Use this tool for personal organization and pattern tracking.

If the form does not load inside the page, use the “Open Tracker in New Tab” button.

Not Sure Which Journal to Choose?

Use the quick guide below, or take the short on-page quiz.

If you manage multiple symptoms and/or diagnoses

Start with the Special Limited Edition

If you have frequent appointments

Choose the Appointment-Focused Edition

If you want to track symptoms from onset to follow-up

Choose the Symptom-to-Solution Edition

If you want maximum convenience

Choose the Spiral-Bound Edition
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Quick recommendation tool

Which My Medical Journal Is Right for You?

Select the statement that sounds most like your current need. Your recommended edition will appear immediately.

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Your result will appear here.

Choose one statement to see the edition that best fits that need.

This quiz is an organization aid, not medical advice.

Compare the My Medical Journal Editions

A simple side-by-side view of price, page count, features, and best use.

Feature Symptom-to-Solution Edition Special Limited Edition Appointment-Focused Paperback Appointment-Focused Spiral Bound
Price$77.77$127.77$87.77$87.77
Page count199 pages422 pages285 pages249 pages
Best forTracking chronic symptoms and illnessesComprehensive health referenceAppointment preparation and follow-upLay-flat appointment tracking on the go
Symptom trackingYesYesLimited/basicLimited/basic
Provider visit notesYesYesYesYes
Test result trackingYesYesYesYes
Medication trackingYesYesYesYes
Questions to ask providerYesYesYesYes
Specialist recommendationsLimitedYesLimitedLimited
Common and uncommon condition informationNoYesNoNo
Appointment trackingYesYesExpandedExpanded
At-a-Glance formsNoYesYesYes
Lay-flat writingYesNoNoYes
Best formatSpiral BoundPaperback/Book FormatPaperbackSpiral Bound

Your Memory Should Not Have to Carry Your Whole Medical Story

Documentation does not guarantee answers. It gives you a clearer starting point.

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Track what you notice

Write down symptoms, changes, patterns, and concerns while they are fresh.

2

Prepare before appointments

Bring clearer questions, organized notes, and a stronger starting point.

3

Document what happened

Keep visit summaries, recommendations, medications, tests, referrals, and follow-up instructions in one place.

4

Follow up with clarity

Track what improved, what changed, what still needs attention, and what to ask next.

Built for the People Carrying the Details

My Medical Journal can support patients, caregivers, parents, partners, and advocates who need one place to organize symptoms, appointments, medications, questions, provider notes, test results, and next steps.

Chronic illness support
Caregiver organization
Appointment preparation
Medical history tracking
Symptom pattern tracking
Follow-up care planning

Which My Medical Journal Is Right for You?

Take the on-page quiz to help decide which edition best fits your current needs.

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Community resource

Recommend a Doctor

Share a provider who helped you feel heard, prepared, informed, or supported. This board is designed for recommendations, not public complaints.

Submit a Provider Recommendation

This form is connected to the My Medical Journal Provider Recommendation database. Use it to recommend a provider who helped you feel heard, prepared, informed, or supported.

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Posting rule: 4–5 star recommendations may auto-post publicly if they pass the safety rules. Lower ratings, blocked emails, and flagged language are saved privately and emailed to the site owner instead of posting publicly.

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Recently Recommended Providers

Public recommendations are limited to structured, positive provider recommendations. Emails and private details are never displayed.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. My Medical Journal is an organization and tracking tool. It does not diagnose, treat, cure, or replace care from a licensed medical provider.

Choose the Symptom-to-Solution Edition if you want to track symptoms from onset through follow-up. Choose the Special Limited Edition if you want a broader health reference with common and uncommon conditions. Choose the Appointment-Focused Edition if you mainly need help preparing for and documenting medical visits.

Both are designed for appointment preparation, visit documentation, and follow-up tracking. The spiral-bound edition is easier to write in during appointments, travel, or daily use because it lays flat.

Yes. Caregivers, parents, partners, and advocates can use it to organize symptoms, appointments, questions, medications, and follow-up instructions.

Yes. The journal can support organization for chronic symptoms, recurring appointments, long-term care, and complex health tracking.

It can help you organize your notes, symptoms, questions, and follow-up details so you can bring clearer information to appointments.

Digital tools, app updates, and e-book updates are coming soon. Join the email list to receive release updates.

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These resources are provided for informational, supportive, and organizational purposes and are not a substitute for professional medical, mental health, domestic violence advocacy, emergency, crisis, or legal advice. My Medical Journal is an educational and organizational tool. It does not replace evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, safety planning with a qualified advocate, or follow-up care from a licensed professional. This website is not monitored in real time. If you are experiencing a medical emergency or immediate danger, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department. If you are thinking about suicide, self-harm, or are in emotional crisis, call or text 988 or visit 988lifeline.org.