Medication tools

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A medication schedule keeps producing small sums: how many days are left in the bottle, what “every eight hours” means in real times, what the pack actually costs per day. These 29 do that arithmetic.

Clocks going back or forward? Daylight saving time and your medication schedule shows what happens to your dose times.

Supply and cost

How much you have, how long it lasts, what it costs.

Timing and doses

When each dose lands, and what is still in you when it does.

Every N hours → clock times

Dose interval

Turns “every 8 hours” into real clock times, and flags the doses that land overnight.

Home time → local time

Time zone shift

Compares keeping local time against keeping your body's schedule after a flight.

Half-life → what is left now

Half-life decay

How much of a dose remains after N hours, when it is effectively cleared, and how much builds up on a repeating schedule.

Days on and off → real dates

Cycle dates

Lays out a 21-on-7-off or every-N-weeks schedule as real dates, so the next start is not mental arithmetic.

Times a day → clock times

Times a day

Turns “three times a day” into real times that fit between when you wake up and when you go to bed.

Last doses → next allowed time

Next dose time

For “every 4 hours, no more than 4 in 24 hours” labels: the earliest the next dose is allowed, and which limit decides it.

Your steps → dated taper

Taper schedule dates

Puts calendar dates on the taper steps your prescriber gave you: when each step starts, when it ends, and the final day.

A course → date of the last dose

Course end date

When a 10-day course or a box of 21 tablets actually finishes: the day and time of the last dose, counted from the first.

Every N hours ↔ times a day

Hours to times a day

“Every 6 hours is how many times a day?” Both directions, and what happens when the gap does not divide into 24.

Method & cycle day → protected from

Birth control start

When a new combined pill, progestogen-only pill, ring or injection starts protecting against pregnancy, based on NHS guidance.

Last injection → next shot due

Depo shot

Date of your next contraceptive injection and the late-but-still-covered window, following CDC and NHS guidance.

Insert date → remove and new-ring dates

NuvaRing schedule

Enter the day you put the ring in. See when to take it out, when the ring-free week ends, and the date of the next ring.

Start date → dose steps

GLP-1 dose schedule

Tirzepatide dosage chart, and dose steps by date for Mounjaro, Zepbound, Wegovy (shot or pill) and Foundayo, with each label's missed-dose rule.

BID, TID, QID → clock times

Prescription abbreviations

Type the directions as written, like “1 tab PO TID”, and get them in plain words with real dose times. Warns about abbreviations on the “Do Not Use” list.

Hours late → what to do

Missed birth control pill

Missed or late pill? Tells you what to take now, whether you need condoms and until when, and when to skip the placebo week, by the CDC rules.

Records and routine

What to load into the box, and what to tell the doctor.

What these are not

None of these tools give medical advice, and none of them will compute a dose for you. They do arithmetic on numbers you type in. Anything about which medication to take, whether a dose can move, how to taper, or what to do about a missed dose belongs with your doctor or pharmacist — and a pharmacist will usually answer it in under a minute on the phone.

If you would rather have the scheduling handled for you, Doz is a free iPhone app that keeps prescriptions, doses and stock counts in one place. There is also a blog covering the habits these tools support.