Step 1: The Symptom Tracker helps you assess how intense your symptoms are. The scale of 0 (no symptoms) to 10 (severe symptoms) records how you feel each day. Rate each symptom you are experiencing out of 10, and add additional symptoms if they are not already in the tracker. Add up all your numbers for that day, and give yourself a symptom point total. (Remember that your symptoms can be delayed by up to 3 days. How you are feeling today may be due to your activities from several days ago.)

Step 2: Think about your energy like money in the bank. The Energy Points Chart shows on a scale from 1 to 10 how many energy points, or “coins”, an activity may “cost” you. All of our daily activities cost energy, and we earn energy coins back every night when we sleep or during the day when we rest. Here are some important tips for using the chart:

• There are different kinds of energy, including physical energy, cognitive (thinking) energy, and social/emotional/spiritual energy.

• An activity might use more than one kind of energy (for example, driving uses both physical and cognitive energy).

• Activities will “cost” everyone a different number of energy coins. It’s specific to each person, but this chart can help give you an idea of where to start.

• Activities might “cost” you fewer coins over time as you recover.

• Use the Energy Points Chart as a reference as you use the Activity Tracker (step 3)

Step 3: Each day record your activities, using the Activity Tracker and write down how many “coins” or points they used. You can use the Energy Points Chart as a starting place to see how much they cost, but over time you might decide to change the numbers of certain activities to better reflect your experience. Add up how many points you used that day to give yourself a Daily Point Total. This is a starting place to see how much energy you are using in a day. This should be done in combination with the Symptom Tracker, so that you are filling out both tools each day.