Fibromyalgia Symptom Self-Check

Walk into your appointment with the clinical picture already on paper. Fibromyalgia is easy to under-describe in a ten-minute appointment — and easy to have dismissed. This self-check helps you turn a fuzzy “I just hurt everywhere and I’m exhausted” into the exact information a clinician is trained to recognise.

What’s inside

• A plain-English Widespread Pain Index (WPI) body map — tick where you’ve had pain over the past week.
• The Symptom Severity (SSS) scale — score fatigue, unrefreshing sleep and cognitive (“brain fog”) symptoms the way the criteria do.
• A running total you can bring, plus space for the everyday symptoms that don’t fit neatly into a form.

How to use it

Fill it in across a typical week before your appointment so it reflects a real pattern, not one bad day. Hand it to your GP, or use it to steer the conversation so nothing important gets left out.

Where it fits

This is one of four practical tools in the Getting Diagnosed collection — the hands-on companions to the book Do I Have Fibromyalgia? A Compassionate Guide to Getting Diagnosed and Believed. Start here, then pair it with the Appointment Prep scripts and the Rule-Out Tracker. You can buy it on its own here, or get all four together in the Complete Diagnosis Toolkit — the four tools bundled at a lower price than buying each separately.

Information and organisational support only. This is not a diagnosis, treatment or a substitute for medical advice — always discuss your symptoms with your GP.