Log a symptom

Symptoms are how you tell the app how you feel. Logged on a 0–10 severity scale, one entry per symptom per day. Pattern insights use these heavily — once you have ~14 days of data, correlations between symptoms and doses, foods, or weight start to surface.

What's preloaded

The app ships with the GLP-1 side-effect cluster turned on:

• Nausea
• Fatigue
• Bloating / gas
• Constipation
• Sulfur burps
• Injection site reaction
• Heartburn / reflux
• Headache

Enable or disable any of them in Profile → Symptoms. You can also add custom symptoms — see below.

How to log

1. On the Log page, scroll to the Symptoms section. Each enabled symptom shows as a row.
2. Tap a row.
3. Drag the slider 0–10 (0 = none, 10 = unbearable).
4. The entry auto-saves.

Or use Quick Log → Symptoms from the bottom nav, which jumps you straight to the symptoms section.

The whole flow takes about three seconds per symptom. Logging at the end of each day works well — you can rate the day's worst moment.

Custom symptoms

To track something not in the preloaded list:

1. Profile → Symptoms → Add custom.
2. Type a name (e.g., "Joint pain", "Brain fog", "Sleep quality", "Hunger").
3. The symptom appears with a CUSTOM tag in your daily log.

Common useful custom symptoms:

• Sleep quality (rate the night, not the day).
• Hunger (especially during dose escalation).
• Mood / anxiety.
• Energy.
• Joint pain (specific joint or general).

What 0–10 actually means

There's no objective scale. Pick your own and stay consistent:

• 0 = "Didn't notice it today."
• 3 = "Aware of it, ignorable."
• 5 = "Distracting."
• 7 = "Affecting what I do."
• 10 = "Worst it's ever been."

Self-consistency matters more than absolute calibration. Your Day 30 score of 5 should feel comparable to your Day 60 score of 5.

When to log

Pick one of two patterns:

End-of-day (most common): rate everything once before bed, capturing the worst part of the day.

As-it-happens: open the app when symptoms hit. Useful for specific tracking like injection-site reactions or post-meal nausea.

The app stores the maximum severity per symptom per day, so as-it-happens overwrites end-of-day if the second rating is higher. This is intentional — what users actually remember and act on is the worst moment.

Editing

Tap any logged symptom and drag the slider to a new value. Set it to 0 to mark "logged but absent." Tap again and clear to remove the entry entirely.

A 0 is different from no entry: 0 says "I checked and it wasn't there today." No entry says "I didn't track this today." For pattern insights, 0 counts as data.

What feeds off symptoms

• Pattern insights — symptoms vs. doses, calories, macros, weight. See Pattern insights.
• The dashboard's multi-series chart can overlay any symptom on top of any other series.
• The AI assistant can read your symptom log and explain timing patterns ("Your nausea peaks ~36 hours after a dose escalation").
• The endogenous simulation doesn't directly use symptoms (it's a forward model, not a fitting one), but agent reasoning will surface symptom-dose correlations.

Common questions

"Should I log a 0 every day if I have no symptoms?" Helps a lot for pattern detection — the engine can distinguish "0 nausea today" from "didn't track nausea today." If a symptom is consistently absent, you can disable it instead.

"What if a symptom is constant — say, 4 every day?" Disable it. A constant value adds nothing to correlations (zero variance breaks the math). Re-enable when something changes.

"Can the AI add symptom entries?" Yes, if you ask: "Log nausea at 6 today" works. The assistant will write the entry.

Privacy

Symptom data is one of the most personal categories in the app. It's stored against your account, shown only to you, and included in your data export.

Next

• Pattern insights — what the engine looks for.
• Day notes — for symptoms that don't fit a 0–10 rating.
• AI assistant — to explore symptom timing in plain language.