'''A compound you add to a protocol is a medication.''' It shows up in your medications section like anything else, it is checked for interactions like anything else, and editing it in either place edits one record.
There is no copy, no duplicate and no second version to keep in step.
== Why you see it in two places ==
Your '''medications''' section is the list of what you take. Your '''protocol''' screen is the schedule, the sites, the supply and the timeline for one therapy.
They are two views of the same row, not two rows.
'''An entry that came from a protocol says so''', so you can see where it came from and jump to that screen. An ordinary medication carries no such label.
== What it means in practice ==
- '''Interaction alerts include your protocol compounds.''' This is the point. A checker that could not see half of what you take would be worse than none.
- '''Changing the dose on the protocol changes it in your medication list''', because there is one record to change.
- '''Archiving a compound archives the medication''', and restoring it restores both.
- '''Deleting your health record removes it once''', not twice.
== The parts that stay on the protocol ==
The schedule, the injection site, the reconstitution figures and the supply count live on the protocol side, because an ordinary medication has nowhere to put them and no use for them.
That is why the two are joined rather than merged.
== Two things Loopa refuses to guess ==
'''A route with no plain word for it is left blank.''' A pellet, a ring or "other" has no equivalent in the medication vocabulary, and Loopa records no route rather than the nearest one. A wrong route reads as an instruction you were never given.
'''A schedule the simple list cannot express keeps its own words.''' Twice weekly, or a cycle, is written out as it is rather than snapped to "weekly". Snapping would halve a recorded frequency.
== If you had both before ==
If you were on a protocol before this changed, you may have a compound and a medication of the same name sitting side by side.
'''Loopa reports those rather than merging them''', and leaves them for you. Merging picks which of two records you wrote survives, and that is not a choice an app should make about your medication. Delete whichever is the stray one.
== Related ==
- [[supplements-and-medications|Supplements and medications]]
- [[medications-and-interaction-alerts|Medications and interaction alerts]]
- [[medication-protocols|Medication protocols]]
- [[logging-a-dose-a-missed-dose-or-a-change|Logging a dose, a missed dose or a change]]
- [[supplement-and-medication-reminders|Reminders for supplements and medications]]
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'''A compound you add to a protocol is a medication.''' It shows up in your medications section like anything else, it is checked for interactions like anything else, and editing it in either place edits one record. There is no copy, no duplicate and no second version to keep in step. == Why you see it in two places == Your '''medications''' section is the list of what you take. Your '''protocol''' screen is the schedule, the sites, the supply and the timeline for one therapy. They are two views of the same row, not two rows. '''An entry that came from a protocol says so''', so you can see where it came from and jump to that screen. An ordinary medication carries no such label. == What it means in practice == * '''Interaction alerts include your protocol compounds.''' This is the point. A checker that could not see half of what you take would be worse than none. * '''Changing the dose on the protocol changes it in your medication list''', because there is one record to change. * '''Archiving a compound archives the medication''', and restoring it restores both. * '''Deleting your health record removes it once''', not twice. == The parts that stay on the protocol == The schedule, the injection site, the reconstitution figures and the supply count live on the protocol side, because an ordinary medication has nowhere to put them and no use for them. That is why the two are joined rather than merged. == Two things Loopa refuses to guess == '''A route with no plain word for it is left blank.''' A pellet, a ring or "other" has no equivalent in the medication vocabulary, and Loopa records no route rather than the nearest one. A wrong route reads as an instruction you were never given. '''A schedule the simple list cannot express keeps its own words.''' Twice weekly, or a cycle, is written out as it is rather than snapped to "weekly". Snapping would halve a recorded frequency. == If you had both before == If you were on a protocol before this changed, you may have a compound and a medication of the same name sitting side by side. '''Loopa reports those rather than merging them''', and leaves them for you. Merging picks which of two records you wrote survives, and that is not a choice an app should make about your medication. Delete whichever is the stray one. == Related == * [[supplements-and-medications|Supplements and medications]] * [[medications-and-interaction-alerts|Medications and interaction alerts]] * [[medication-protocols|Medication protocols]] * [[logging-a-dose-a-missed-dose-or-a-change|Logging a dose, a missed dose or a change]] * [[supplement-and-medication-reminders|Reminders for supplements and medications]] [[Category:Health tracking]]
