The fields a dose log needs before it is worth keeping

The fields a dose log needs before it is worth keeping

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Most people start a dosing log as a date and a number, and abandon it within a month because it never answers a question they actually have. The fix is not more discipline. It is putting the right handful of fields in from the start.

Date and time matter because weekly compounds care about the interval, not the weekday. A Saturday morning dose followed by a Sunday evening dose is a nine day gap wearing a one week costume. Record the actual time and the interval computes itself.

Dose in milligrams, not units, is the one field people get wrong. Units are meaningless across a vial change. Store milligrams as the truth and let units be derived from the concentration you recorded. Then add vial identity: batch or open date, concentration, and remaining volume. Site rotation is worth one short field, because attributing a sore spot to a site only works if you know where the last four went.

Finally, one free-text note per entry. Not a diary, just a line. Nausea day two, skipped the gym, travelled and dosed late. Those lines are what turn six months of numbers into something you can reason about. The reason I use a structured dose tracker rather than a spreadsheet is that it enforces the vial link, which is the field a spreadsheet always loses.

If your log cannot answer how many days since the last dose, what concentration was in the vial at the time, and what you noted afterwards, it is a list of numbers rather than a record.

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