The cost of a single unrecorded dose

The cost of a single unrecorded dose

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Missing one entry seems harmless. It is one row, and you know roughly when it happened. In practice a single gap degrades three separate things, and it is worth understanding why so the habit survives the week you cannot be bothered.

It breaks the interval sequence. The gap between the entries either side is now double, and there is no way to tell from the data whether that was a missed dose or a missed record. Both readings are plausible and they mean opposite things.

It breaks the vial count. Doses remaining is derived by subtraction, so an unrecorded draw inflates the remaining count for the whole rest of the vial, and the error persists until the vial ends. That is the version of this that reaches out and causes a supply problem weeks later.

And it breaks the symptom timeline, because days-since-dose is computed from the last recorded dose. A missing entry silently shifts every subsequent observation onto the wrong axis.

The remedy when it happens is to record it late and mark it as reconstructed rather than to pretend it was contemporaneous. An entry flagged as approximate is usable. One that quietly claims a precision it does not have is not.

The remedy in general is to make recording part of the injection rather than a separate task. Logging at the fridge in a peptide dose tracker takes seconds and removes the interval in which forgetting happens.

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