What to track once you start tapering

Once you move into tapering, the same trackers you've been using read a little differently: the dose step-chart shows a downward staircase instead of a flat or rising one, the weight band becomes the steadier reference against any single week's number, and the journey timeline marks the exact date the phase itself changed. Nothing new needs to start — the value in tapering is in how the existing charts get read, not a separate set of tools.

What does the dose chart look like once doses start stepping down?

The dose step-chart draws your history as a stepped line regardless of direction, so a tapering schedule shows up as a staircase heading down rather than up — flat while a dose holds, dropping exactly on the date it's reduced. Logging through a taper works the same way it always has: date, dose, and site if applicable, each entry sitting on the same chart your earlier, higher doses are already on, so the whole arc is visible in one place rather than split across separate views.

Why does the stability band matter more during a taper?

During tapering, the stability band remains a steadier reference than any single week's number — a shaded range around your trend, built from your own recent history rather than from any assumption about how a taper is supposed to go. Sitting inside the band reads as "holding," and drifting outside it is neutral information either direction, not a flag. The tapering-in-your-data guide covers the band and the phase markers on your charts in more detail.

What's worth watching in your side-effect log during this stretch?

Your side-effect pick-list and 90-day chart carry straight through tapering, unchanged in how you log them — nothing about the mechanics is different once doses start stepping down. What can be worth a look is whether anything in that chart lines up with the dates your dose steps happened, which is exactly what the side-effect diary guide covers: the pick-lists, the chart, and — for Plus — timing relative to your most recent dose.

What does the journey timeline add that a single chart can't?

The journey timeline records every phase you've moved through — Active, Tapering, and whatever comes after — as a dated sequence, so the whole shape of your path is visible in one place instead of pieced together from memory of when things changed. Every phase change and dose change also appears as a marker directly on your weight and BMI charts, at the exact date it happened, which makes it easy to scan back and see what the trend was doing around that point. More on how the journey view adapts to whichever phase you're in is on the journey feature page.

What should you actually do with any of this?

None of it answers how fast to taper or whether to hold at a dose — those are clinical decisions, and GLPath deliberately doesn't project a dose forward during tapering, showing a holding label instead of a guess. What the record gives you is something concrete for the conversation that does answer those questions: here's the step-down so far, here's what the weight band did around each step, here's whether anything in the side-effect log lined up. Once tapering ends, the tracking after GLP-1 guide covers what the same dashboard looks like off medication entirely.