Medication, supplement, and hormone change log

A de-identified log for tracking timing, evidence labels, fit checks, symptoms, labs, and stop signals after a medication, supplement, hormone-context, or product change.

Updated 2026-05-20 draft

Use this when timing matters. A change can be useful, irrelevant, harmful, or just noise unless you record what changed and what signal you expected.

Do not include names, photos, addresses, clinician names, pharmacy account details, or portal screenshots unless you need them for your own private record.

Boundary

Do not use this worksheet to start, stop, raise, lower, or replace prescription medication on your own. Use it to preserve the timeline and questions for the clinician conversation.

Record label

  • Record label:
  • Change category:
    • Prescription medication
    • OTC medication
    • Supplement
    • Hormone context or hormone medication
    • Cannabis product where legal
    • Topical, device, food, or other product
  • Start date or approximate start window:
  • Stop date or planned review date:

What changed

  • Product, medication, or category:
  • Brand or product label, if relevant:
  • Dose, route, form, timing, or serving:
  • Why it was changed:
  • Who recommended or decided it:
  • What else changed at the same time:

Evidence label

Choose one for supplements, products, cannabis products, foods, or devices:

  • Current care
  • Human gout data
  • Human adjacent data
  • Animal or lab mechanism
  • Mechanism map only
  • Personal experiment
  • Research curiosity
  • Unknown or unclear

Claim this change is supposed to affect:

  • Urate burden
  • Crystal context
  • Immune activation
  • Inflammatory signaling
  • Joint protection
  • Sleep or pain support
  • Tracking
  • Other:

Fit checks

  • Kidney function or lab-monitoring issue:
  • Medication interaction question:
  • Glucose, blood pressure, bleeding, stomach, mood, sleep, fertility, pregnancy, or hormone-context issue:
  • Legal or impairment issue:
  • Skin, allergy, gut tolerance, or sensitivity issue:
  • Clinician question:

Tracking plan

SignalBaseline before changeWhat I will trackReview point
Pain or flare frequency
Heat, swelling, stiffness, or touch sensitivity
Serum urate or labs
Sleep or next-day function
Side effects or tolerance
Rescue-plan use or rebound

What happened

Date or approximate timingWhat happenedDose or use that dayNotes

Stop or step-back signal

  • Stop or call now signal:
  • Step-back signal:
  • No-signal review point:
  • Question to bring to clinician:

Claude prompt

Help me fill out a de-identified gout medication, supplement, and hormone change log. Ask one question at a time. Do not ask for names, photos, addresses, clinician names, pharmacy account details, or portal screenshots. Separate prescription medication changes from supplement or product experiments. For products, ask for the evidence label, fit check, tracking signal, review point, and stop or step-back signal. End with a timeline summary and concrete clinician questions. Do not recommend starting, stopping, or changing medication.

Source trail

Evidence label: standard-care tracking support plus mechanism-aware pattern capture.

Current-care anchors

  • NICE NG219 gout recommendations
  • American College of Rheumatology patient and guideline sources

Mechanism sources

Source check: 2026-05-20.