DeltyKeeping a record your prescriber can actually read
The failure is always the same
Almost everyone starts with a spreadsheet. It works for about eight weeks. Then there are columns whose meaning has been forgotten, a row deleted by accident in March, and notes in a phone that say things like “rough Tuesday” with nothing attached to them.
The moment it matters is an appointment. A prescriber asks a specific, ordinary question: when exactly did you change amount, and how did the first fortnight after that go. That question is answerable from a good record in seconds and unanswerable from a bad one at any length.
What a usable record contains
Dated changes, not just current state. The date an amount changed is the single most valuable line in the whole record, and the one people most often fail to keep. Current state is on the vial; history is not.
What you actually did, not what was planned. A schedule says what should have happened. A record says what did. The difference is the part a clinician needs.
How you felt, close to when you felt it. Written days later, it is a guess. Written the same day and attached to a date, it can be set beside your dose history afterwards.
Measurements you trust. Weight moves for many reasons day to day; a line over weeks says more than any single morning. Waist and similar measurements are slower and often more informative.
Where you injected, if you rotate. Mostly this is a memory aid, and it is one of the few things people consistently say they would not give up.
What to leave out
A record that tries to hold everything gets abandoned. The commonest reason people stop tracking is not that it failed them, it is that it became a second job. Most of what survives past the first month is small: what is due, where the last injection went, how many doses are left, and one line that shows change over time.
Anything that needs daily typing to stay accurate will be wrong by spring.
Bringing it to an appointment
A clinician has minutes, not an evening. One page beats an export of everything. Put the dated changes first, then side effects against those dates, then measurements, then whatever you actually want to ask. Paper is fine. So is a PDF on a phone.
Where Delty fits
Delty keeps this record on your iPhone and exports it as a one-page summary you can hand over or email to yourself. It records doses, check-ins, measurements, injection sites and vial dates, and it keeps a dated history of every change to a routine item, which is the part that answers the question above.
It does not calculate or suggest doses, and it does not rate you. Your record stays on the phone; the privacy policy lists the optional services that are the exceptions.
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