Online graphing calculator for dosages?

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The discussion centers on the impact of repeated medication doses on drug levels in the body, emphasizing the significance of half-life and other biochemical parameters that influence dose-response curves. A specific example mentioned is Eliquis, where increased dosing can lead to a threshold effect that flattens the response curve, akin to an extended half-life. The conversation also touches on the need for advanced software or online graphing tools that can model these complex pharmacokinetic behaviors, with Wolfram Alpha suggested as a potential resource, though it may require a tutorial for effective use. There is an acknowledgment that the variability in drug uptake and expulsion complicates the practical application of such modeling tools, highlighting the academic nature of the interest in this topic.
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Interested in the curves of medical dosages, is there a graph program?
I've become fascinated with how repeat doses of medications affect the body's level of the drugs (see sample diagram).

Is there some sort of online software grapher that takes params such as half-life and plots a graph?

I guess this is exactly what Wolphram Alpha does isn't it? I tried it once but it's over my head without a bit of a tutorial.
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A quick side note. I do not know of an app, BTW.

Half life of drugs is important but there are other biochemical "parameters" that may affect the dose response curve, or things like drug titer
Example Eliquis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684191/
As the titer is repeatedly increased with repeating doses, a threshold is eventually reached where some increased carryover between doses flattens out the the response curve. I guess you could consider it to be an extended half life.

The point being: for an app to be reliable there may be a need for complex set of program run-time parameters for handling exceptions -- like drugs that do interesting things when taken over long periods. @Godot_ can give you more information.
 
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Thanks, yeah. More an academic interest; theres certainly too many factors that affect uptake and expulsion to make any practical use of it.
 
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