Each day (or flare day) log episodes with timestamp spans and whether intensity progresses.
Explicitly mark suspected triggers; write “no obvious trigger” when true—silence is ambiguous later.
After any intervention, capture what changed within 2–4 hours—even “unchanged” is data.
Copy-ready timelines beat repeating stories verbally at triage.
Seven-day cursor: count facts, not “seems”
- Episode count and window (e.g. worse afternoon→evening)
- Suspected triggers—or explicitly “none identified”
- Intervention and outcome within 2–4 hours
Anti-pattern: “threw up a bit”; better: “14:00 ~10 min after eating, undigested kibble, twice, energy OK”.