dose history is the most under-discussed thing on this board
dose history is the most under-discussed thing on this board. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. Choose a format you will still be able to open in two years. Plain text or a spreadsheet you export beats an application that may not exist. Missing entries recorded as blanks preserve…
Why contemporaneous beats reconstructed, with the failure mode.
Memory smooths. Reconstructing a fortnight from recollection produces a series that is more regular, more consistent with your current beliefs, and quietly wrong in a direction that flatters the story you are already telling.
I found this out by reconstructing six weeks and later finding order receipts that contradicted my own entries. The log was not a little wrong; it was wrong in exactly the direction that made my narrative work. Write it down on the day, even the boring days, especially the boring days.
Yes — write the concentration in the log as well as on the vial. Belt and braces and it costs nothing.
Are the missed weeks in there as blanks or dropped entirely?
a missed week is data, write it down
That is a waist figure in the weight column. Easy mistake and it makes the chart look dramatic.
one line a week beats a spreadsheet you abandon