The Seizure Diary allows you to record and track your seizures and related events in a detailed log. This feature helps you gain a deeper understanding of how your seizures may be connected to your daily activities and rest patterns. For example, you might discover that your seizures are linked to disrupted sleep or tend to occur more frequently at certain times of the day or night.
Research indicates that patients wrongly report 55.5% of their recorded seizures[1]. EpiMonitor offers adjustable sensing sensitivity, detecting and logging potential generalized tonic-clonic seizures, including nocturnal ones, to ensure nothing is overlooked.
The Seizure Diary is a valuable tool for understanding your seizure patterns and triggers. By keeping a detailed log, you can work more effectively with your healthcare provider to manage your condition.
Keeping track of your seizures
Every time EpiMonitor detects a potential seizure, the event will be automatically added to your Seizure Diary for review, helping to ensure greater accuracy. If you would like to learn more about how to review a detected seizure, please click here.
Additionally, you can manually log seizure events in your Seizure Diary to track seizures that occurred when EpiMonitor wasn’t worn, or for types of seizure that EpiMonitor cannot detect. To learn how to do so, click here.
EpiMonitor is not designed to diagnose or provide treatment recommendations. Instead, it provides helpful insights into your condition to support you and your doctor in determining the best approach to your care.
How to access your Seizure Diary
Plus Plan Users Note that manually triggered alerts are not classified as possible seizures. You will need to log them separately by adding a new manual event into the system.
Note that manually triggered alerts are not classified as possible seizures. You will need to log them separately by adding a new manual event into the system.
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Open the EpiMonitor app and tap on My diary. There, you’ll find your daily summary that provides an overview of your daily data. For more detailed information, you can refer to our relevant article here. To access your Seizure Diary, tap on Seizures confirmed. |
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This is the daily view of your Seizure Diary. In the next section, we’ll walk you through the metrics, to help you interpret your seizure data:
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Seizure Counts
The Seizure Count feature tracks only confirmed seizures— either those detected and confirmed by the system or manually added by you. Events still under review are not included here.
Lower Purple Bar: Shows the average number of confirmed seizures over the past 7 days. This allows you to easily compare today's seizures to your recent average. |
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Seizure types
This section provides a breakdown of seizure types for the selected day and the previous seven days, helping you spot patterns that could inform your doctor and caretakers.
EpiMonitor detects only generalized tonic-clonic seizures. All other seizure types can be manually added to your seizure diary. To keep track of this information, please remember to regularly review your recorded seizures. |
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Seizure by timeA clock-style visualization shows when seizures occur most frequently throughout the selected day and the previous seven days.
Darker colours represent times with higher episode frequency, helping you anticipate patterns and plan accordingly. |
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Seizure triggers
Here, you’ll find a ranked list of confirmed triggers, helping you navigate your day with greater awareness.
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Weekly, monthly, and yearly trends Plus Plan Only
Reviewing patterns over time offers insights into patterns that can support more informed decisions about your treatment plan. This feature is available on the Plus plan only. To find out more about our plans, visit EpiMonitor Subscription Plans.
Here, you will find key metrics for confirmed and manually recorded seizure events. Unreviewed events won’t appear here. If needed, you can return to your daily view to update your Diary.
Total seizuresThis section shows you your weekly/ monthly/ yearly seizure count, helping you:
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Seizure types
A breakdown of seizure types over your selected period helps you:
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No Seizure day and Streak
Track your progress toward managing your condition with a visual of seizure-free days and streaks. |
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Seizure by time
A clock-style visualization shows when seizures occur most frequently throughout your week/ month/ year.
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Peak seizure day
High-frequency days help highlight specific periods where extra preparation or caution may be beneficial.
Rescue Medication
Monitoring medication usage trends offers insight into treatment effectiveness over time |
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Seizure triggers
Long-term tracking of potential triggers reveals patterns that might not be visible in daily views.
The larger the box for a specific trigger, the more frequent or impactful it ’s been. Grey boxes indicate potential triggers not identified in the selected time frame.
Common Triggers Include:
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If you have any questions or need further assistance, please reach out to our support team at support@empatica.com.
[1] Research has shown that, when recording seizures themselves, patients failed to document 55.5% of all recorded seizures. Read More.