Why a dated side-effect log beats relying on memory

A dated side-effect log beats memory because memory reorders things — what felt worst tends to stick, what happened three weeks ago and what happened yesterday blur together, and "since I started" quietly comes to mean whatever week feels most vivid. GLPath's side-effect log timestamps every entry against the pick-list for your actual medication, so what you have later is a record instead of an impression.

Where does the pick-list come from?

When you log a side effect, GLPath shows a list built from what's documented for the medication you've selected — tirzepatide-based lists for Mounjaro and Zepbound, semaglutide-based lists for Ozempic and Wegovy, and so on, rather than one generic catch-all for everyone. That keeps the list short and relevant instead of a long scroll of things that don't apply to what you're taking. Two of the medication-specific logs — Mounjaro and Wegovy — walk through how their dose logs and side-effect lists work together in more detail.

What if what you're noticing isn't on the list?

An "Other" option lets you add a term of your own, privately, and it stays available to pick again the next time it comes up — nobody else sees it, and it isn't shared into any list beyond your own account. That matters because label-derived lists are necessarily general, and what you're actually noticing is specific to you. Between the standard list and your own custom terms, the log ends up describing what you experienced rather than what fit into a predefined category.

What does the 90-day chart actually show?

Every side effect you log over the last 90 days rolls up into a chart on the side-effects page, showing which terms came up and how often — not a severity score, not a ranking of what's "worse," just a count of what you logged and when. That's often the first time a pattern becomes visible at all: something that felt random week to week can look distinctly clustered once it's counted out. The page also keeps a full history underneath the chart, so you can scroll back to any specific entry and see exactly when it happened.

What does Plus add on top of the log?

For Plus subscribers, GLPath groups side-effect occurrences by how many calendar days had passed since your most recent dose — same-day, one day after, two days after, three or more — and surfaces a sentence when one bucket clearly stands out from the rest. It's framed as an observation about your own history, not a conclusion: if a pattern shows up, the page asks whether it's worth discussing with your clinician rather than telling you what it means. More on how that fits alongside the pick-lists and the chart is on the side-effects feature page.

What's the log useful for?

On its own, a side-effect entry doesn't diagnose anything and doesn't need to — its value is in being there later, dated and specific, when you're trying to describe three months of your own experience to a clinician instead of reconstructing it from memory in the waiting room. If a term keeps showing up on the chart around the same point in your dosing cycle, that's not a verdict on anything; it's just a pattern worth discussing with your clinician at your next appointment, backed by a record instead of a guess at how often it's actually been happening.