Growth hormone injection reminders

Three reminders a day, at the times you set

You set it up once, in Settings → Time Settings: the daily injection time, how many minutes before it to take the pen out of the fridge, and whether to send one more reminder if the injection hasn't been marked, and after how many minutes. From then on the reminders come on their own, every day:

• Take the pen out of the fridge: before the injection, as many minutes ahead as you set.
• Injection time: at the time you set.
• Injection not marked yet: one more reminder after the injection time, if nobody has marked it yet.

If you inject yourself and don't need a separate pen-out step, you can choose “One button: ‘I injected’” in Time Settings. Then one tap marks the evening, and the pen-out reminder isn't sent.

Once the injection is marked, the reminders stop

You mark the injection on the home screen by tapping “Mark Injection Done”. Once it's marked, the reminders left for that day aren't sent. When you mark that the pen is out of the fridge, the pen-out reminder isn't sent anymore.

On a day you don't inject, you mark “Not injecting today”, with a reason if you want. The day is recorded as “Not injected” (and in the history calendar: “Skipped”), no dose comes off the stock, and its reminders won't be sent.

A pen-out or injection reminder that's delayed, for example because the phone was off, arrives up to 6 hours after its time and no later, so you don't get a reminder for a moment that has already passed.

On your phone and computer, and on iPhone too

The reminders arrive as notifications on every phone and computer where you turned notifications on and, if the app is open, on the screen itself too. On Android and on a computer it works from the browser, with nothing to install. On iPhone you first need to add GrowTracker to the Home Screen.

Snooze 10 minutes from the notification, on Android and on a computer

On Android, and on a computer with Chrome or Edge, the notification itself has a “Snooze 10 min” button. Tapping it brings the reminder back in 10 minutes, without opening the app. If the injection is marked in the meantime, the snoozed reminder won't come. On iPhone the notification has no such button.

Everyone chooses which reminders reach them

When several people follow the same child, each of them chooses for themselves which reminders about the child reach them: taking the pen out, injection time, “Injection not marked yet” and the pen stock alerts. The choice is in Settings → Parents & sharing → “My alerts”, and it applies only to the person who made it.

The “What reaches whom” table shows who gets what. If “Injection time” is off for everyone, the app points out that nobody will get an injection reminder.

You invite the other parent in Settings → Parents & sharing, and the page on sharing between parents has all the details.

For parents and teens

• For parents: both parents get the reminders on their own phones, and each of them sees in real time whether the injection has been marked and who marked it.
• For teens who inject on their own: with their own login, the teen gets the reminders on their own phone and marks the injection themselves, and the parents can keep just the “Injection not marked yet” reminder for themselves.

Teens who inject themselves have a page of their own: teens who inject on their own.

Every mark is saved in the injection log, and each day's site appears on the injection card according to the injection-site rotation. For different times over a few days, on vacation or for a flight for example, there's a “Temporary schedule”: the reminders move to the new times and go back to the usual ones on their own.

More about GrowTracker on the features page, and short answers in the FAQ.