Cycle Ally

The timeline ​

Care → Timeline. Everything on one axis: periods, medications, states, visits, lab results and the days you tagged.

What each thing looks like ​

  • Periods — bars on their own row.
  • Medications — a bar each, paler for supplements, with a diamond where a dose changed.
  • Side effects — one row of their own, covering any medication. Over longer spans the triangles are grouped by week, fortnight or month, with a count above the mark.
  • States — hormonal contraception, pregnancy, breastfeeding, no periods — each a row like the rest, drawn as a thinner grey bar.
  • Tagged days — sick, travel, stress, medication change — on their own row, marked with a plus.
  • Visits and lab results — marks on their own rows, each with a legend symbol as well as a colour.

What changed, in words ​

Below the chart the same span is listed as text: the dates, what changed on each of them, and the value of any lab result. The picture shows where things sit; the list says what they were.

Why it exists ​

Because “I started metformin around the time the acne flared, or was it after the pill?” is a question no list answers and one picture does. It is also the part of the summary clinicians read first after the questions.

How far back ​

In the app you choose the span yourself — three, six or twelve months — and it opens on twelve. That is free. In the summary PDF the timeline covers three months, and twelve with Plus. A year is the span where starting a medicine and the cycles after it fit in the same picture.