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A big release. Pillbox now covers many more long-term conditions and life stages, works by your body rather than a gender field, and is easier to use for everyone, including neurodivergent people. It also adds sign-ups, terms and privacy pages, and a lot of new options for medicines.

Pillbox helps you keep a record. It isn't medical advice: always follow your prescriber's instructions, and in an emergency call 999.

New Care categories

Switch the ones you need on in Account → Health profile. Each has a printable one-page summary for your GP or clinic.

  • Pregnancy
    • Due date and how far along you are (weeks and days).
    • The NHS antenatal timeline: appointments, scans, vaccines, MatEx, MATB1, birth plan and hospital bag, with Book and Done buttons and space for results.
    • A log of each check-up: blood pressure, urine, bump, heartbeat and position.
    • Folic acid and vitamin D added to Meds in one tap.
    • A "Something not right?" panel with your maternity unit's number.
  • Pregnancy options and aftercare (private): continuing, adoption and abortion set out without recommending any of them; steps, medicine times, bleeding and symptoms, and a follow-up test. Encrypted, with its own PIN, never shared, and deleted in one go.
  • Menopause
    • Stage, months since your last period, and a daily symptom diary with triggers.
    • The Greene Climacteric Scale.
    • One-tap HRT set-ups.
    • Contraception and bleeding guidance, and work notes.
  • Premenstrual symptoms (PMS, PMDD, PME), in Periods and contraception:
    • Daily DRSP ratings, or a 30-second check-in.
    • A chart of cycles stacked by day, and the week before each bleed compared with the week after.
    • A heads-up before harder days, medicines taken only in the 2 weeks before a period, and gentle links to support.
  • Thyroid
    • Levothyroxine timing, and spacing checks against calcium, iron, antacids and minerals.
    • TSH charts with dose changes marked, and when the next test is due.
    • A weekly symptom check, and MedEx renewal.
  • Diabetes
    • Time in range and patterns by time of day, with CGM data via Nightscout.
    • Ketone guidance and an insulin and carbs log.
    • A one-tap hypo guide with a 15-minute timer, sick-day mode, and the DVLA "five to drive" check.
    • Your annual care checks as a done/due list.
  • Migraine and headaches
    • A headache diary with monthly headache, migraine and painkiller days.
    • Medication overuse warnings, and menstrual migraine patterns.
    • Preventive treatment reviews, and the evidence used for CGRP medicines.
    • Safety warnings for topiramate, and for combined contraception with aura.
  • Blood pressure
    • Guided home monitoring the NICE way (2 readings a minute apart, morning and evening, day 1 left out of the average), against your target.
    • Medicine changes marked on the chart, side effects, and safety advice for very high or low readings.
    • Monitor CSV import.
  • ADHD and autism (no diagnosis needed)
    • Waiting lists, including Right to Choose, and assessment prep notes.
    • A communication passport to show, print or copy into your medical ID, and a Reasonable Adjustment Flag reminder.
    • Optional energy and sensory notes.
  • Gender-affirming care (private)
    • GIC waiting list, prescriber and shared care.
    • Fertility, a changes journal with your own fields, and encrypted progress photos.

Your body, not a gender field

  • An optional, private body inventory:
    • It decides which screening reminders you get (cervical, breast, bowel, AAA) and which pages appear.
    • The Screening page points out invitations that may not arrive because of the sex on your GP record.
  • Pronouns and an optional gender identity in your profile. "Women's health" is now Periods and contraception.

Medicines

  • Schedules:
    • Morning, Afternoon and Evening quick times, with "Take all" for each part of the day on Today.
    • Doses every few days or weeks, for injections.
    • Doses only in the 2 weeks before a period.
    • Short courses and one-off doses that stop by themselves.
  • Supplements with one-tap common ones, and medicines marked as private prescriptions or bought, with prices kept out of PPC sums.
  • Running low? Mark it Ordered, then Collected. Controlled drugs show when to ask for the next prescription and a "collect by" date (28 days).
  • How it's working: a log of when a dose was taken, kicked in and wore off, side effects, and a table comparing each dose.
  • Injections and brands:
    • Injection-site rotation, which suggests the next site.
    • The brand recorded with each collection.
  • Hormone set-ups for HRT, gender-affirming hormones, PMDD treatments and thyroid medicines.
  • Private medicines: reminders and emails just say "Reminder", and they're hidden from people you share with.

Blood tests

  • Results and trends: 30 tests in UK units, with charts, the lab's range, your own target range, the time since your last dose, and medicine changes marked.
  • A full set of ready-made blood test reminders.

Easier for everyone

  • Account → Display and reminders:
    • Larger text, more spacing, an easy-read font, and no animations.
    • Hide streaks.
    • A "did you take it?" follow-up notification.
  • Today:
    • A Now / Next view and a timeline of the day.
    • Log a dose with the time you took it.
    • Running-low notices show the steps (order, collect, log stock).
    • "Not logged" instead of "Missed".
  • A visual timer.
  • Privacy: hide the screen when switching apps, and a disguised home-screen name and icon ("Planner" or "Notes").

Accounts and site

  • Sign-ups: people can create their own accounts with a password or single sign-on. Admins can require approval and get an email about each new sign-up.
  • Terms of use and a privacy policy, generated from what Pillbox does. They're linked in the footer and agreed to when signing up.
  • A new tablet logo in your theme's colours.
  • Pillbox is now licensed under the GNU GPL v3.0.

Upgrading from v1.1.0

  1. Update from the Admin page, with git pull, or by uploading the new files. config/config.php and storage/ are kept.
  2. Open Pillbox once. The database updates itself, with many new tables and columns.
  3. Make sure storage/ is writable: private progress photos are stored there, encrypted.
  4. Keep the scheduled tasks running every 5 minutes. They send the new prescription, follow-up and cycle notifications, and sync Nightscout.
  5. Admin → Site settings:
    • Under Terms and privacy, fill in who runs your Pillbox and a contact (have the text checked: it's a starting point, not legal advice).
    • Under Sign-ups, choose whether people can sign up.
  6. Optional settings in config/config.php (see config.example.php): 'signup', 'legal', and 'nightscout' => ['allow_private' => true] if everyone using your Pillbox is trusted and your Nightscout is on a private network.

Good to know

  • Encryption: the private pages (Pregnancy options and aftercare, and Gender-affirming care) are encrypted with the key in storage/app.key. Keep that file safe and backed up: without it they can't be read.
  • Not included yet:
    • Bluetooth blood pressure monitors.
    • Weather data for migraine.
    • Repeating monthly HRT cycles.
    • Buttons inside notifications.
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