Moving between Dose and Course
Updated 8 October 2026
Dose and Course sit on one account, but they do not share everything. What crosses between them, which way, and what to do when a curve looks wrong.
The short version
One thing crosses from Course to Dose: a dose you mark as taken in the Course pillbox can become a dose in Dose, so Dose's concentration curve counts it. Nothing crosses the other way. A dose you log in Dose does not appear in Course. Dose has no separate medication list, and a medication you add in Course is not a Dose drug, ritual or protocol.
What is shared
Both products sit on your one account, and both can read the compound catalogue. Beyond that, Course keeps each medication as two records: a general record of a drug you are taking, and Course's own notes about how it relates to your treatment. The general record is what lets a taken dose reach Dose.
The dose itself is the other shared thing. It is a normal dose in Dose, with the same fields as one you logged there, so the concentration curve treats it the same way. How a concentration curve is drawn explains what the curve then needs.
What is not shared
- Medications. Course keeps its own medication list. A Course medication does not become a Dose ritual or protocol, and nothing you set up in Dose adds a medication to the Course pillbox.
- Doses logged in Dose. Course does not read them. They do not appear in the pillbox or on the Course timeline, which is built from what you recorded in Course.
- Skipped, held and missed doses. Course records them, and Dose never sees them. Only a dose marked as taken can become a dose in Dose.
- Edits made in Dose. Changing the time or amount of a dose in Dose does not change the entry in Course, and the next change to that entry in Course writes the Course values over your edit. To keep a change, make it in Course.
Which way data flows
From Course to Dose, for taken doses only:
- Mark a pillbox dose as taken, and Dose gets a matching dose at the time you took it.
- Change the time, or an amount you entered on that taken entry, in Course, and the dose in Dose follows.
- Correct the entry to skipped, held or missed, and the dose in Dose is removed, so the curve stops counting it.
- Delete the dose in Dose, and the Course entry stays as taken but is no longer linked. Course records that the dose was deleted from the Dose side. Dose does not bring it back.
- Delete the taken entry in Course, and the linked dose in Dose is deleted with it.
From Dose to Course, nothing moves.
When a taken dose does not reach Dose
Course keeps the entry as taken, no dose is created in Dose, and Course records the reason. A taken dose is skipped over when any of these is true:
- The medication is not matched to a drug in the catalogue.
- No amount and unit is set on the entry, its schedule or the medication.
- The medication has no route recorded.
- The route is one Dose cannot take from Course. Only oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous and intravenous are passed on.
Without a dose in Dose there is nothing for the curve to draw, so the dose will not show there.
An example
- 08:00. In the Course pillbox, you mark the morning dose as taken. Dose now has a 50 mg oral dose at 08:00, and its curve includes it.
- 08:05. You notice you took it at 08:30. You change the time in Course, and the dose in Dose moves to 08:30.
- 12:00. In Dose, you log a second 50 mg dose by hand. Dose counts it. Course does not show it.
- 20:00. In the Course pillbox, you mark the evening dose as skipped. No dose is created in Dose, so the curve has nothing for it.
If a curve looks wrong
Check where you logged the dose, then log it in the place you mean to use.
- A dose missing from the curve: if you marked it in Course, check that the medication has a catalogue drug, an amount, and a route Dose can take. If you logged it in Dose, look in Dose's own history, not Course.
- A dose you do not expect: a taken entry in Course may have created it. Correcting the entry in Course removes it. Deleting the entry in Course also removes it, and so does deleting the dose in Dose.
- A dose in the wrong place: if you want it on both sides, log it in Course, and it reaches Dose. Logging it in Dose does not put it in Course.
The curve is an estimate, not a measurement. If a decision depends on a level, talk to your prescriber.
Where this comes from
This page was checked against the Course pillbox and the rules that link its taken doses to Dose, as they stand on 8 October 2026. If those rules change, this page is updated with them.