I'm a developer with Meniere's — just added 'log past episode' to my app because I can never start a timer when vertigo hits
Cross-posting because this might help others.
I have Meniere's and built a tracker app for myself a while back. It worked for mild attacks where I could open the phone and tap "start episode," but for the bad ones like vertigo, nausea, room spinning — there's no chance I'm operating a phone. By the time I felt human again, the episode was over and I had nothing logged.
So my data was biased. Only the easy attacks made it into the history, and any "trends" I saw were based on the wrong half of my episodes.
This week I shipped the fix:
- Log a past episode with approximate start time + duration
- Add rescue meds you took with relative timing ("at onset", "30 min in")
- 14-day backdating limit (memory drops off after that anyway)
Honest question for the community: how do you handle this? do you trust your tracker logs, or do you assume they're missing the worst episodes? Curious if I'm the only one or if this was a real gap.
(I'm the dev — happy to answer Q&A. App is Meniere's: Symptom Tracker on iOS if you want to check it out, but mostly I want to hear how others deal with it.)