Patterns

Patterns from your own record.

Damson looks across your own days and shows you what it noticed, with the counts, the dates and the limits written on every card.

A Damson pattern card titled a longer-running observation from your own days, comparing fatigue by bloating. Across the 82 days the log covers, she marked fatigue on 32 of the 42 days she also marked bloating, and on 5 of the 40 days she did not, with a dot chart and a note that this does not show that one of these marks caused the difference. It covers May 11 to July 31, 2026.

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How are food and symptom patterns found?

From your own days, and nothing else. Damson looks across the meals you logged, the check-ins you answered and the symptoms you marked, and when enough of them line up, it shows you an observation. Until then, it says so: none of them came together into a comparison yet.

With PCOS, now also called PMOS, general advice runs out quickly. Two people can eat the same lunch and have two different afternoons. A pattern built from your own record is about you, which is the only person it claims to describe.

Damson's Today screen with a your week card. It says you logged 7 plates across 7 separate days and saved 5 check-ins, and that none of them came together into a comparison yet, for July 24 to July 30, 2026.

What does a pattern card show, and what can it not?

Every card shows its working. It says what it compared, the counts behind it, and the dates it covers. In the example at the top of this page, fatigue was marked on 32 of the 42 days when bloating was also marked, and on 5 of the 40 days when it was not.

Every card also says what it cannot show. In Damson's own words, these are "not medical findings and do not show that one food caused an outcome." An observation is a reason to look more closely, or to bring it to your clinician. It is not a diagnosis, and it never tells you to cut a food.

If you want to know why a card appeared, Why am I seeing this opens the reasoning in full: which days were counted, how a day with nothing marked was treated, and why the comparison is made the way it is.

Does Damson notice when a meal comes back?

Yes. When a similar plate comes back, Today shows what you said after it last time and what was different, such as the wholegrain bread being bigger then. It is the smallest kind of pattern: one meal, remembered.

Logging, check-ins and symptoms are free for good. The longer-running pattern readings are part of the full Damson.

Damson's Today screen recalling a check-in after a similar meal on July 29, 2026, with her scores out of five, and noting that the wholegrain bread was bigger then.

Questions about patterns

Can an app find patterns between food and PCOS symptoms?

Damson, an iPhone app for PCOS, now also called PMOS, draws observations from your own days: your meals, your check-ins and the symptoms you mark. Each one shows what it compared, the counts, the dates it covers, and what it cannot show.

Does a pattern mean a food caused my symptoms?

No. Patterns in Damson are not medical findings and do not show that one food caused an outcome. They count what you recorded, and say so.

What does each pattern card show?

What it compared, the counts behind it, the dates it covers, and what it cannot show. You can open the reasoning under Why am I seeing this.

Are patterns free?

Your record, and everything you log into it, is free for good. The longer-running pattern readings are part of the full Damson, a subscription with a free trial.

Which records do patterns use?

Only what is in your own record: the meals you logged, the check-ins you answered and the symptoms you marked. Nothing about you is compared with anyone else.