Share your medication log with your doctor

What a Peptimes export contains

Peptimes exports your records as CSV or JSON, for yourself or for an appointment. An export covers the data stored on your iPhone for the account you're signed in to:

• your logged doses (the export screen calls them "Injection logs")
• daily check-ins
• body metrics, weight history and measurements
• your compounds and schedules
• doses awaiting your answer, from checking past doses
• doses you marked as not taken
• goals and preferences

Your name and email aren't in the file.

Weights and body measurements appear in the units you've chosen (for example pounds, or feet and inches) next to the metric values Peptimes stores, so you can read either one.

An export is a snapshot from the moment you make it. Entries you add afterward aren't in a file you already created, so export again before an appointment if you've logged since.

Open a CSV in a spreadsheet

1. Save the CSV to Files, or send it to your computer by AirDrop or email.
2. Open it with a spreadsheet app, such as Numbers or Excel.
3. Expect a series of small tables rather than one long list. Because the CSV holds every kind of data in one file, each section starts with a line that names it and begins with # (for example injections for your dose logs or dailyCheckIns for your check-ins). Most sections have a header row, then one row per record, with their own columns. Body metrics, goals and unit preferences are the exception: each is a single cell of JSON text.
4. Widen the columns and turn on text wrapping so your notes are readable.
5. Check that dates and times look right. Spreadsheets sometimes reformat them.

To share only your doses, copy that section into a new sheet and send the new sheet. Leave the exported file unchanged. To print, open the CSV in a spreadsheet and print the section you need.

One caution about where you open it: a web-based spreadsheet usually uploads a copy of the file to that service. If you want the file to stay on your own devices, open it with an app that runs on the device.

What to check before you share

• The date range. Scroll to your first and last entries. A log starts on the day you started logging, so make sure it covers the period you mean to show.
• Gaps. An export shows what you recorded, not everything that happened. A day with no entry means no record, which isn't the same as no dose. Fill in anything you took but didn't log, then export again.
• Answered and open doses. If you used Peptimes to check past doses, the file lists doses still awaiting your answer and doses you marked as not taken in their own sections. Answer the open ones first, so the record says what you mean it to say.
• Amounts and units. Read each amount next to its unit. If something is wrong, correct it in Peptimes and export again, so the file and the app say the same thing. Editing the exported file leaves you with a version that doesn't match your records.
• Everything else in the file. The export includes check-ins with their notes, weights, measurements and goals, not only doses. Read your notes. If you want to share only part of it, make a copy of the file and delete the sections you don't want to send.
• Whose file it is. The file doesn't carry your name or email, so say who it's from in your message.
• How the clinic wants it. Ask how they prefer to receive a file: a patient portal, a secure message, a printout, or on your phone at the visit. A file sent by ordinary email is copied into at least two mailboxes.

If you use another app or a paper log

The same checks apply. Look at the date range, look for gaps, read the units, remove what you don't want to send, ask how the clinic wants it, and delete copies you no longer need.

Peptimes and your records

Peptimes is a private iPhone tracker, coming soon to the App Store. You log doses, check-ins, weights and measurements as they happen, and a few taps in Export My Data turn them into a CSV or JSON file when an appointment is coming. You choose where the file goes. How Peptimes handles your data explains where your records are stored.