Record the reason for a dose change, not just the change

Record the reason for a dose change, not just the change

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Most dose logs capture the what and drop the why. Week six says 0.5 mg, week seven says 0.25 mg, and six months later nobody, including you, can say whether that was a planned hold, a reaction to side effects, a supply gap, or a mistake. The number without the reason is close to useless for any decision you make later.

The reason field does not need to be long. Three or four words carry it: 'planned step up', 'held, nausea', 'short supply', 'clinician reduced'. What matters is that the category is consistent enough that you can scan a column and see a pattern. If you write a paragraph one week and nothing the next, you have notes, not data.

The value shows up at exactly two moments. The first is a consultation, where the question is almost always some version of how you responded to the last change and why the schedule looks the way it does. The second is when you consider going back up. A reduction that happened because of a hard week is a different situation from one that happened because you ran out, and only the reason field tells you which.

Keeping this next to the dose rather than in a separate journal is the part that makes it work. When the reason lives in the same row as the number, in a Peptide Tracker & Calculator or a spreadsheet with one line per dose, it gets filled in while you still remember. A separate diary gets abandoned in about three weeks, every time.

One caution: record the reason you were given or the reason you decided, not your theory about the underlying cause. 'Held, nausea' is a fact. 'Held, probably because I ate late' is a guess that will look like a fact when you read it back.

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