'''If your medication is not daily, your weeks have a shape.''' After enough logging Loopa can describe that shape back to you, using nothing but your own entries.
'''It describes. It never explains.''' Loopa does not say a day is rough because of your medicine, and it never suggests moving a dose. Both of those belong with your prescriber.
'''Protocols are a Loopa Premium feature.'''
== What a cycle is here ==
The stretch from one dose to the next. A weekly injection has a seven-day cycle; every-other-day has a two-day one.
'''A daily protocol has no cycle''', so this page does not apply to one. Loopa says so plainly instead of drawing a pattern out of nothing, and shows you today's check-in and your sleep instead.
== What it needs before it says anything ==
'''Three complete cycles.''' A cycle counts as complete when it sits between two logged doses.
Under that, the screen tells you how many you have and what it is waiting for. That line is deliberate: a pattern built on one cycle is a coincidence with a chart.
'''Three check-ins''' before any single day of the cycle gets a score of its own.
== What it shows ==
Your cycle laid out day by day, with your own check-in averages on each day, and:
- '''Which days your entries call your strongest.'''
- '''Which days they call your roughest.'''
- '''How many entries each day is built from''', so you can see where it is confident and where it is thin.
- '''The threshold it needed''' to say anything at all.
It is arithmetic on your own numbers, described in sentences. There is no ranking against other people and no target.
== What it will not do ==
- '''It will not tell you why.''' A pattern is not a cause, and your life has other things in it.
- '''It will not suggest a change to your dose or its timing.'''
- '''It will not call a day good or bad.''' Strongest and roughest are your own words, from your own scores.
If a pattern you see raises a question, write it down where it will be read: the '''Question for my prescriber''' field on a check-in puts it on the first page of your appointment summary.
== Making it more useful ==
- '''Check in on the days you feel worst, not just the days you feel fine.''' A record with only good days has a shape that is not yours.
- '''Log the dose at the time you took it''', because every day is positioned relative to that.
- '''Keep going through a change.''' A new amount starts the count again in practice, and the pattern will take a few cycles to catch up.
== Related ==
- [[medication-protocols|Medication protocols]]
- [[logging-a-dose-a-missed-dose-or-a-change|Logging a dose, a missed dose or a change]]
- [[daily-check-ins|Daily check-ins]]
- [[your-week-plan|Your week, around your cycle]]
- [[preparing-for-a-prescriber-appointment|Preparing for a prescriber appointment]]
== Where this comes from ==
Everything here is computed from your own logged doses and check-ins. '''Loopa does not give medical advice''' and never attributes a pattern to a medicine. Sources for health information elsewhere in this knowledge base are at [https://loopahealth.app/sources/ loopahealth.app/sources].
[[Category:Health tracking]]
'''If your medication is not daily, your weeks have a shape.''' After enough logging Loopa can describe that shape back to you, using nothing but your own entries. '''It describes. It never explains.''' Loopa does not say a day is rough because of your medicine, and it never suggests moving a dose. Both of those belong with your prescriber. '''Protocols are a Loopa Premium feature.''' == What a cycle is here == The stretch from one dose to the next. A weekly injection has a seven-day cycle; every-other-day has a two-day one. '''A daily protocol has no cycle''', so this page does not apply to one. Loopa says so plainly instead of drawing a pattern out of nothing, and shows you today's check-in and your sleep instead. == What it needs before it says anything == '''Three complete cycles.''' A cycle counts as complete when it sits between two logged doses. Under that, the screen tells you how many you have and what it is waiting for. That line is deliberate: a pattern built on one cycle is a coincidence with a chart. '''Three check-ins''' before any single day of the cycle gets a score of its own. == What it shows == Your cycle laid out day by day, with your own check-in averages on each day, and: * '''Which days your entries call your strongest.''' * '''Which days they call your roughest.''' * '''How many entries each day is built from''', so you can see where it is confident and where it is thin. * '''The threshold it needed''' to say anything at all. It is arithmetic on your own numbers, described in sentences. There is no ranking against other people and no target. == What it will not do == * '''It will not tell you why.''' A pattern is not a cause, and your life has other things in it. * '''It will not suggest a change to your dose or its timing.''' * '''It will not call a day good or bad.''' Strongest and roughest are your own words, from your own scores. If a pattern you see raises a question, write it down where it will be read: the '''Question for my prescriber''' field on a check-in puts it on the first page of your appointment summary. == Making it more useful == * '''Check in on the days you feel worst, not just the days you feel fine.''' A record with only good days has a shape that is not yours. * '''Log the dose at the time you took it''', because every day is positioned relative to that. * '''Keep going through a change.''' A new amount starts the count again in practice, and the pattern will take a few cycles to catch up. == Related == * [[medication-protocols|Medication protocols]] * [[logging-a-dose-a-missed-dose-or-a-change|Logging a dose, a missed dose or a change]] * [[daily-check-ins|Daily check-ins]] * [[your-week-plan|Your week, around your cycle]] * [[preparing-for-a-prescriber-appointment|Preparing for a prescriber appointment]] == Where this comes from == Everything here is computed from your own logged doses and check-ins. '''Loopa does not give medical advice''' and never attributes a pattern to a medicine. Sources for health information elsewhere in this knowledge base are at [https://loopahealth.app/sources/ loopahealth.app/sources]. [[Category:Health tracking]]
