Side effects are loud when they're happening. You write them down because you can feel them. The problem is what happens when they stop.
The Tuesday-afternoon nausea that bothered you for fifteen weeks tapers off, and you don't notice — because you can't notice the absence of something. There's nothing to react to. So the entry that should read 'no nausea this week, first time since week three' just never gets written, and three months later you'd swear it had never been a thing.
The fix is a single rule. Once a month, scroll back through the running tags on your journal — the ones you've used most often — and ask 'is this still happening?' For each one that isn't, write a single line: 'no this week, first time since week .' Five minutes, maybe twice in a year you'll catch something material. The prescriber will care, because the trajectory of the thing stopping is at least as informative as the trajectory of it appearing.
The prescriber will care, because the trajectory of the thing stopping is at least as informative as the trajectory of it appearing.
And future you will care, because in twelve months you'll be glad you can date precisely when the thing that bothered you the most for three months stopped bothering you at all. Titra keeps tags across weeks, so the scroll-back is mechanical rather than guesswork.