Set once, not every dose
Treatments live under Monitor: add a drug, a therapy or a lifestyle change, its amount and frequency, and the start date, and stop it when you stop. Medicines are grouped as Daily and As needed; the as-needed ones, colchicine, an anti-inflammatory, a steroid your doctor gave you, are one tap in Quick Log with the time set to now, and you can add how much it helped and any side effects.
Starting urate-lowering therapy
The first months on allopurinol or febuxostat can bring more flares, not fewer, which is why Started urate-lowering therapy is its own trigger and the treatment page keeps the before and after apart. The app shows you the two periods side by side; what to do about them is your GP's or rheumatologist's call, never the app's.
What the treatment page shows
Your flare days a month while on it against before it started, the last four weeks, average severity and duration before and since, which triggers moved up or down, and how it compares with your other treatments. If nothing was logged before it started, it says there is nothing to compare with. The Treatments page is part of Premium.
Your doctor decides
GoutMe never suggests starting, stopping or changing a medicine or a dose. If something in your log lines up with a medicine you take, a water tablet, low-dose aspirin, the allopurinol you keep forgetting, take it to your GP, rheumatologist or pharmacist. Never change a dose because of what an app shows.
Where it lives in the app
Monitor holds Treatments, where you add, link, stop or delete a drug, therapy or lifestyle change, and Medicines, grouped as Daily and As needed. Medicines and reliefs are also pages of the flare log and tiles in Quick Log, next to the Missed urate-lowering dose trigger. What Worked is in Insights.
What it needs from you
A start date for each daily treatment, once. A tap for a missed dose. As-needed medicines and reliefs are one tap when you use them. The Treatments page and What Worked are part of Premium; logging is free.
