I really appreciate the Medications feature of the Health app in iPhone. It reminds me to take my different pills and lets me easily log that I’ve taken them. I’ve been taking a lot over the past six weeks, morning and evening. The app will even allow me to generate a rough visual of what each pill type looks like.

BUT… (there’s always a but isn’t there)

I’m not finding a way to adjust the number of pills so they are different on different days.

When it comes to the blood thinner (Warfarin) the dose is actually adjusted week by week based on my blood coagulation value (PT/INR), and it may be that for the same week I take two pills on the Tuesday and three on the Wednesday. I can only set a value for number of pills that is the same across all days of the week. Ideally I would want to be able to set up the dosage each time the prescription updates.

Unless of course I’ve missed a setting…?

This is not a huge deal because I obviously prepare my physical pill dispenser(s) according to the prescription. But it’d be nice to have the app match reality. Especially for the accuracy of the historical data, which I do enjoy looking at, and may come in useful.