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My Adrenal Companion

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Possible adrenal crisis? Use your prescribed emergency plan and seek emergency medical care. Do not delay emergency care to troubleshoot the app. Adrenal crisis · Emergency information

My Adrenal Companion is operated by Rick Disler, an individual operating under the name My Adrenal Life, a sole proprietorship in Tennessee, United States. Rick Disler, operating as My Adrenal Life, is not your healthcare provider, medical practice, clinician, or emergency service.

My Adrenal Companion is a consumer health and wellness application designed to help individuals privately organize, track, and understand their own adrenal insufficiency-related health information. It provides educational resources and personal recordkeeping tools. It does not provide medical services, diagnose conditions, prescribe treatments, or make clinical decisions.

Your health information. Your records. Your understanding. Your decisions—with your healthcare team.

Write to hello@myadrenallife.com or use the contact page. That is the contact method already published for My Adrenal Life. Do not email medical records, lab documents, passwords, backup passwords, or other sensitive health information unless My Adrenal Life has told you to use an approved secure method.

Getting started

My Adrenal Companion keeps a personal medical chart on the device. You can use the core app without turning on iCloud sync or Apple Health. Enter the emergency information and medication plan you already have from your clinician. The app records what you enter. It does not calculate a glucocorticoid dose or decide your diagnosis.

It is for primary adrenal insufficiency (Addison’s disease), secondary adrenal insufficiency, tertiary adrenal insufficiency, glucocorticoid-induced adrenal insufficiency, and HPA-axis suppression or recovery where that fits. It is not Addison’s-only. My Adrenal Companion is being prepared for iPhone on iOS 18 or later. Android support is planned for a future release and is not available now. The application has not yet been released publicly. Availability at public launch remains subject to final testing and App Store approval.

Emergency information

Offline emergency information shows what you stored on the device and supports access to your existing plan. It can be opened without an internet connection when that information is already on the device. It does not detect or predict adrenal crisis, and it does not contact emergency services for you. A dead battery, a device failure, or damaged data can make that information unavailable. Keep another copy of essential emergency information.

Recording

Everyday recording can include symptoms, illness and stress events, emergency events, vitals, labs you enter, and notes. An entry is what you wrote. It is not a clinical interpretation. Free includes this everyday recording. Trends and summaries are Premium additions.

Medication regimens

You can keep medication regimens and a factual record of doses you enter, including oral, injection, pump, and other routes where they apply. You can add a site photo for an injection or pump record when you choose an image. Photographs are stored with their associated records on your device. If you enable optional iCloud synchronization, supported photographs may also synchronize through your private CloudKit database when the files are available. Choosing a photograph does not send it to My Adrenal Life. If you include that record in an encrypted backup, the photograph is part of the backup file you save. Not every photograph is guaranteed to synchronize. Sync is not required. Basic medication reminders are included. Advanced reminders are a Premium addition. The app does not calculate a steroid dose.

Connected Health

Connected Health import is included. For the initial iOS release, that connection is Apple Health, and you choose whether to allow it. Sleep, activity, and other health data are available where Apple Health and your permission support them. My Adrenal Life does not use connected health information for targeted advertising. Connected Health is not Ask ADDI. The chart is not automatically sent to Ask ADDI.

Apple Health

The current iOS application includes Apple Health integration. The application has not yet been released publicly. Supported Apple Health features at launch remain subject to final verification and App Store approval. The read permission is yours. You allow or deny it in Apple’s health settings on the device. Allowing it does not automatically share Apple Health with My Adrenal Life, and My Adrenal Life does not receive your entire Apple Health account.

If Apple Health access is denied, the app cannot read Apple Health. Records you typed yourself stay part of the chart. Change the permission on the device if you want the connection. Information you import can become part of the Companion chart. Supported chart records may then be included in optional iCloud synchronization if you turn sync on.

Health Connect

Health Connect integration is planned for a future Android version of My Adrenal Companion.

Health Connect is not available in the current Apple application.

Apple Health is the supported connected-health integration for the initial iOS release.

Future Android functionality may differ depending on device compatibility, permissions, and supported Health Connect data categories.

iCloud Sync

My Adrenal Companion is being prepared for its initial Apple release. The current application includes optional iCloud synchronization for supported records. Availability at public launch remains subject to final testing and App Store approval. You may synchronize supported My Adrenal Companion records between supported Apple devices using your own iCloud account. You choose whether to enable it. It is not required for emergency information, recording, or the rest of the core app. It follows normal Apple device and account requirements: a supported Apple device, signed in to iCloud, with sync enabled on the devices that should share those records. When you enable optional iCloud synchronization, supported chart records may synchronize through your private CloudKit database. Depending on the records and files available, synchronized information may include sensitive health information, photographs associated with your records, and original laboratory documents. Not every attachment or record is guaranteed to synchronize.

My Adrenal Life does not automatically receive the Companion chart through iCloud and does not receive your entire iCloud account. The local record stays separate from Ask ADDI. This page does not describe iCloud sync as end-to-end encrypted.

If the device is not signed in to iCloud, sync cannot run. Sign in with the Apple ID you want to use, on each supported Apple device that should share the records. A device on a different Apple ID will not receive that sync. iCloud sync is an Apple feature. Android support is planned for a future release.

iCloud Sync and encrypted backup

These are different.

  • iCloud Sync is optional synchronization of supported Companion records between supported Apple devices through your own iCloud account. You turn it on. It is not a file you export. Availability at public launch remains subject to final testing and App Store approval.
  • Encrypted backup is a file you create and store through a Files provider: iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, or another provider you choose. You keep the file and the password. If you forget that password, My Adrenal Life cannot recover it. Restoring an older backup can bring back records you previously deleted.

Saving a backup in iCloud Drive does not turn on iCloud Sync. Turning on iCloud Sync does not create that backup file.

Medical Team and appointments

You can keep a Medical Team, appointments, and appointment preparation. Appointment preparation is included. Trends, summaries, and clinician reports remain Premium, including when you open them while preparing for an appointment. The Medical Team list is not sent to Ask ADDI automatically, and it does not make My Adrenal Life your clinician.

Lab document import

Manual labs are included. Premium lab-document import is for a document you choose. On-device OCR and extraction run on the device. Results you confirm become part of the chart. Original laboratory documents are stored with their associated records on your device. If you enable optional iCloud synchronization, supported original laboratory documents may also synchronize through your private CloudKit database when the files are available. Not every document is guaranteed to synchronize. An encrypted backup is a separate file you create. Sync is not required to keep a laboratory result or a document on the device. Bulk lab review and import are Premium additions. The app does not pull lab files unless you choose them.

Ask ADDI

Ask ADDI is an optional online educational assistant and a Premium feature. It requires an internet connection. Information you intentionally enter into Ask ADDI is transmitted to a third-party service provider to process your questions and generate responses. Your My Adrenal Companion medical chart is not automatically shared with Ask ADDI. Ask ADDI can produce incomplete or inaccurate answers. Ask ADDI does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, prescriptions, or emergency services. If you may be in adrenal crisis, use your prescribed emergency plan and seek emergency medical care. Do not troubleshoot Ask ADDI instead of that care.

Premium

Premium never owns your records. Essential medical records remain accessible without a paid subscription. Free includes the Emergency Center, emergency information, core adrenal education, everyday medical recording, medication regimens, medication dose recording, symptoms, illness and stress events, emergency-event recording, basic reminders, vitals, manual labs, notes, Medical Team, appointments, appointment preparation, Connected Health import, backup and restore, and optional iCloud synchronization.

Premium adds trends and summaries, clinician reports, Ask ADDI, advanced reminders, Premium lab-document import, on-device OCR, and bulk lab review and import. Purchase options are on the Terms of Use. If Premium lapses, free features and records you already created remain available.

Restore Purchases

If a Premium purchase does not appear, use Restore Purchases in the app. Purchases are handled by Apple. The app may receive entitlement state. My Adrenal Life does not receive full card numbers. Restore uses the Apple ID that made the purchase.

Cancel or manage a subscription

A subscription renews through Apple until you cancel it in your Apple account settings. Manage or cancel it there. My Adrenal Life cannot cancel an Apple subscription from this website. A lifetime purchase, when offered, is a one-time Apple purchase and does not renew on a schedule.

Accessibility

My Adrenal Companion is intended to work with the accessibility features of the device, including the screen reader, text size, and display settings the operating system provides. If a control is hard to use, email hello@myadrenallife.com and name the device and what you were trying to do.

Privacy

How the chart, optional iCloud sync, Apple Health, Ask ADDI, backups, photos, and purchases are handled is on the My Adrenal Companion Privacy Policy. The public website privacy policy is a different document.

Troubleshooting

  • Not signed in to iCloud. Optional iCloud sync needs your own iCloud account on a supported Apple device. If you are not signed in, sync cannot run. The core app does not require sync. Sign in on each Apple device that should share supported records, using the same Apple ID.
  • iCloud sync is off. Sync stays off until you enable it. Records remain the local Companion record on that device. Enabling sync is optional.
  • A second device does not match. iCloud sync shares supported records only across supported Apple devices on that same iCloud account. A different Apple ID, or a device that does not meet Apple’s requirements, will not show that sync.
  • Apple Health permission denied. The app can read Apple Health only after you allow it. Denial does not delete records you entered. Change the permission in Apple’s health settings if you want the connection.
  • Looking for Health Connect. Health Connect is not part of the first Apple release. Android support, including Health Connect, is planned for a future release. The first release uses Apple Health.
  • Ask ADDI needs an internet connection. Without a connection, the conversation cannot run. Your Companion chart is not sent automatically.
  • Purchases not appearing. Confirm the Apple ID that paid, then use Restore Purchases. Entitlement state comes through Apple. My Adrenal Life does not receive full card numbers.
  • Restore Purchases. Use Restore Purchases in the app if Premium access is missing after a reinstall or a device change. Restoration follows Apple’s purchase record.
  • Forgotten backup password. If you forget the password on an encrypted backup, My Adrenal Life cannot recover it. That password is not your Apple ID and it is not iCloud sync.

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