Pill count looks wrong

If DoseAlert thinks you have 12 tablets but your bottle has 20, here's how to fix it.

How DoseAlert tracks inventory

When you first add a medication, you enter the starting count (for example, 30 tablets). Each time you tap Taken, DoseAlert subtracts the dose amount. Skipped or Not-sure doses don't change the count.

So the count is your starting number, minus everything you marked as taken. If the count is wrong, one of those inputs is out of sync with reality.

Common causes

• Starting count was wrong. Easy to mis-count a full bottle.
• Picked up a refill but didn't add to the count. Inventory doesn't auto-update from a pharmacy.
• Split a pill or dropped one. Not something DoseAlert can know about.
• Marked a Taken dose by accident. The count dropped for a dose you didn't take.

Correcting the count directly

1. Open the medication on the Meds tab.
2. Scroll to Inventory.
3. Tap the count field and type the correct number (count your actual pills).
4. Save.

That's it. The count is now whatever you said it is — DoseAlert trusts you.

Adding to the count after a refill

When you pick up a fresh bottle, you can either:

• Tap the refill badge on the medication card (if it's showing), enter the number of pills added, and save.
• Or edit the count directly to the new total (old count + refilled amount).

Undoing a wrongly-logged Taken

If the count dropped because you hit Taken by accident, you can fix it in one step instead of editing the inventory:

1. Open the Pill Tracker and find the mistaken entry.
2. Tap it and confirm Remove.

DoseAlert automatically puts the pills back in the inventory.

Rounding and split pills

If you take 2.5 tablets, DoseAlert rounds to 3 when deducting (it wants the count to stay a whole number). If this creates a long-term drift, periodically adjust the count manually to match reality.