diff --git a/src/__tests__/client-fetch-limit-guard.test.ts b/src/__tests__/client-fetch-limit-guard.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fcd8cffa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/__tests__/client-fetch-limit-guard.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,207 @@
+/**
+ * No client list or picker with a fixed row cap and nothing to reach past it.
+ *
+ * A client read that asks for "the newest N" and renders the answer as the
+ * whole list loses everything beyond N without a word: the Labs list asked
+ * for 500 raw rows and grouped them in the browser, so on a long history
+ * every marker measured only long ago had no row at all. The visit-form lab
+ * picker was the same class before it, and the GLP-1 curve, the side-effect
+ * log and the symptom timeline each had a quieter copy.
+ *
+ * The rule: every literal `limit=<number>` a client fetch sends either sits
+ * beside a pager (an `offset` / `cursor` / `pageParam` within a few lines, or
+ * a `useInfiniteQuery` in the file), or is listed below with the reason the
+ * cap cannot cut anything off.
+ *
+ * What it matches: `limit=<digits>` inside a URL string, and the two
+ * `URLSearchParams` spellings, `.set("limit", "<digits>")` and
+ * `limit: "<digits>"`. What it does not: a limit routed through a named
+ * constant (`limit=${PAGE_SIZE}`), which is a deliberate page size in every
+ * case today. It walks client code only (`components/`, `hooks/`, and `app/`
+ * outside `app/api/`); a server-side `take` is not a fetch.
+ */
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { join } from "node:path";
+
+import { walkSourceFiles } from "./helpers/source-files";
+
+const SRC = join(process.cwd(), "src");
+
+interface Allowed {
+  file: string;
+  limit: number;
+  reason: string;
+}
+
+const ALLOWLIST: readonly Allowed[] = [
+  {
+    file: "app/labs/page.tsx",
+    limit: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Deep-link resolution: the newest reading under one analyte name, used only to find its marker page.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/onboarding/first-result-screen.tsx",
+    limit: 1,
+    reason: "Asks only whether a type has a reading, and which is newest.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/insights/glp1-substance-curve-summary.tsx",
+    limit: 1,
+    reason:
+      "Reads only `medications`, which lists every GLP-1 medication whatever the entry cap; the entries are not used.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/charts/chart-series-request.ts",
+    limit: 5000,
+    reason:
+      "Daily rollup buckets: one row per day, and the widest window (All, 3,650 days, plus a 365-day comparison) is 4,015 days.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/insights/trend-annotation.tsx",
+    limit: 5000,
+    reason: "Daily rollup buckets over a 30-day window: at most 31 rows.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/insights/coach-panel/attachment-picker.tsx",
+    limit: 50,
+    reason:
+      "Search-backed picker: the query narrows the whole document vault server-side.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/settings/share-document-picker.tsx",
+    limit: 50,
+    reason:
+      "Search-backed picker: the query narrows the whole document vault server-side.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "components/documents/document-link-picker.tsx",
+    limit: 50,
+    reason:
+      "Search-backed picker: the query narrows the whole document vault server-side.",
+  },
+  {
+    file: "hooks/use-mood-day.ts",
+    limit: 50,
+    reason:
+      "One calendar day of mood entries; fifty check-ins in a day is beyond any cadence the app offers.",
+  },
+];
+
+const LIMIT_PATTERNS: readonly RegExp[] = [
+  /[?&]limit=(\d+)/g,
+  /\.set\(\s*["']limit["']\s*,\s*["'](\d+)["']\s*\)/g,
+  /\blimit:\s*["'](\d+)["']/g,
+];
+
+const PAGER_NEARBY = /\boffset\b|\bcursor\b|\bpageParam\b/;
+const PAGER_LINES = 3;
+
+function clientFiles(): string[] {
+  return walkSourceFiles(SRC, { floor: 3000 })
+    .filter((p) => !p.startsWith("generated/"))
+    .filter(
+      (p) =>
+        p.startsWith("components/") ||
+        p.startsWith("hooks/") ||
+        (p.startsWith("app/") && !p.startsWith("app/api/")),
+    )
+    .filter((p) => !p.includes("__tests__"))
+    .filter((p) => !/\.test\.tsx?$/.test(p))
+    .sort();
+}
+
+interface Hit {
+  file: string;
+  line: number;
+  limit: number;
+  paged: boolean;
+}
+
+/** Every literal limit in the given source, with whether a pager is beside it. */
+function findLimitHits(file: string, source: string): Hit[] {
+  const lines = source.split("\n");
+  const infinite = /\buseInfiniteQuery\b/.test(source);
+  const hits: Hit[] = [];
+  lines.forEach((text, index) => {
+    // Comments describe old shapes; they send nothing.
+    const trimmed = text.trim();
+    if (trimmed.startsWith("//") || trimmed.startsWith("*")) return;
+    for (const pattern of LIMIT_PATTERNS) {
+      for (const match of text.matchAll(pattern)) {
+        const near = lines
+          .slice(Math.max(0, index - PAGER_LINES), index + PAGER_LINES + 1)
+          .join("\n");
+        hits.push({
+          file,
+          line: index + 1,
+          limit: Number(match[1]),
+          paged: infinite || PAGER_NEARBY.test(near),
+        });
+      }
+    }
+  });
+  return hits;
+}
+
+function allHits(): Hit[] {
+  return clientFiles().flatMap((file) =>
+    findLimitHits(file, readFileSync(join(SRC, file), "utf8")),
+  );
+}
+
+function isAllowed(hit: Hit): boolean {
+  return ALLOWLIST.some((a) => a.file === hit.file && a.limit === hit.limit);
+}
+
+describe("client fetch limits", () => {
+  it("finds the literal limits it is meant to police", () => {
+    // An empty sweep would agree with any allowlist. Every allowlisted cap is
+    // a live hit, so the hit set can never be smaller than the list.
+    expect(allHits().length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(ALLOWLIST.length);
+  });
+
+  it("puts every fixed limit beside a pager or on the allowlist", () => {
+    const offenders = allHits()
+      .filter((hit) => !hit.paged && !isAllowed(hit))
+      .map((hit) => `${hit.file}:${hit.line} limit=${hit.limit}`);
+    expect(
+      offenders,
+      "A client fetch with a fixed limit loses everything past it. Page it (offset / cursor / useInfiniteQuery), move the grouping server-side, or add an allowlist entry that says why the cap cannot cut anything off.",
+    ).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("keeps no allowlist entry that no longer matches anything", () => {
+    const hits = allHits();
+    const stale = ALLOWLIST.filter(
+      (a) => !hits.some((h) => h.file === a.file && h.limit === a.limit),
+    ).map((a) => `${a.file} limit=${a.limit}`);
+    expect(stale).toEqual([]);
+  });
+
+  it("gives every allowlist entry a reason", () => {
+    for (const entry of ALLOWLIST) {
+      expect(entry.reason.length, entry.file).toBeGreaterThan(20);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("flags the shape that dropped markers from the Labs list", () => {
+    const hits = findLimitHits(
+      "components/labs/lab-list.tsx",
+      'apiGet("/api/labs?limit=500&sortDir=desc")',
+    );
+    expect(hits).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(hits[0].paged).toBe(false);
+    expect(isAllowed(hits[0])).toBe(false);
+  });
+
+  it("accepts a limit that travels with an offset", () => {
+    const hits = findLimitHits(
+      "components/example.tsx",
+      "fetch(`/api/x?status=taken&limit=100&offset=${offset}`)",
+    );
+    expect(hits).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(hits[0].paged).toBe(true);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/medications/__tests__/drug-level-chart.test.tsx b/src/components/medications/__tests__/drug-level-chart.test.tsx
index a509dbcd3..9e9b0b673 100644
--- a/src/components/medications/__tests__/drug-level-chart.test.tsx
+++ b/src/components/medications/__tests__/drug-level-chart.test.tsx
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ vi.mock("@/lib/medications/glp1-pk", async () => {
 
 import {
   DrugLevelChart,
+  loadTakenIntakesSince,
   parseDoseMg,
   resolveDoseMg,
 } from "../drug-level-chart";
@@ -362,3 +363,54 @@ describe("parseDoseMg / resolveDoseMg helpers", () => {
     expect(resolveDoseMg("not-an-iso", [], 42)).toBe(42);
   });
 });
+
+describe("loadTakenIntakesSince", () => {
+  const DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+  // 400 daily taken doses, newest first, the newest one a day ago.
+  const now = Date.parse("2026-06-01T08:00:00.000Z");
+  const all = Array.from({ length: 400 }, (_, i) => ({
+    id: `i-${i}`,
+    takenAt: new Date(now - (i + 1) * DAY).toISOString(),
+    skipped: false,
+    scheduledFor: new Date(now - (i + 1) * DAY).toISOString(),
+  }));
+
+  function pager() {
+    const urls: string[] = [];
+    const fetchPage = async (url: string) => {
+      urls.push(url);
+      const params = new URL(url, "http://localhost").searchParams;
+      const limit = Number(params.get("limit"));
+      const offset = Number(params.get("offset"));
+      return {
+        events: all.slice(offset, offset + limit),
+        meta: { total: all.length },
+      };
+    };
+    return { urls, fetchPage };
+  }
+
+  it("walks back past a single page to the horizon, and no further", async () => {
+    const { urls, fetchPage } = pager();
+    // 21-day window + 5 half-lives of 7 days = 56 days, then 150 to cross a page.
+    const since = new Date(now - 150.5 * DAY);
+    const { events } = await loadTakenIntakesSince("med-1", since, fetchPage);
+    expect(events).toHaveLength(150);
+    expect(urls).toHaveLength(2);
+    for (const url of urls) {
+      expect(url).toContain("status=taken");
+      expect(url).toContain("sortBy=takenAt");
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("stops at the end of the history", async () => {
+    const { urls, fetchPage } = pager();
+    const { events } = await loadTakenIntakesSince(
+      "med-1",
+      new Date(now - 10_000 * DAY),
+      fetchPage,
+    );
+    expect(events).toHaveLength(400);
+    expect(urls).toHaveLength(4);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/medications/drug-level-chart.tsx b/src/components/medications/drug-level-chart.tsx
index 481b65748..86e2fdcd7 100644
--- a/src/components/medications/drug-level-chart.tsx
+++ b/src/components/medications/drug-level-chart.tsx
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ import {
 } from "@/lib/medications/glp1-pk";
 import {
   findDrugIdByBrand,
+  GLP1_DRUGS,
   type Glp1DrugId,
 } from "@/lib/medications/glp1-knowledge";
 import { parseDoseMg } from "@/lib/medications/dose-string";
@@ -74,6 +75,53 @@ const HOURS_PER_DAY = 24;
 const WINDOW_HOURS_BEFORE = 21 * HOURS_PER_DAY;
 const WINDOW_HOURS_AFTER = 0;
 
+/** Taken intakes per request while walking back to the model's horizon. */
+const INTAKE_PAGE_SIZE = 100;
+/**
+ * Half-lives before the chart's left edge whose doses still count. After five
+ * half-lives a dose holds about 3% of its peak, below what the chart can show.
+ */
+const HORIZON_HALF_LIVES = 5;
+
+/**
+ * Every taken intake from `since` on, newest first, walked page by page. The
+ * curve is a sum over every dose still in the body, so a fixed count of
+ * recent intakes was wrong in both directions: twenty daily doses of a
+ * long-acting drug stop well short of steady state, and planned or skipped
+ * rows used up the count without being doses at all.
+ */
+export async function loadTakenIntakesSince(
+  medicationId: string,
+  since: Date,
+  fetchPage: (url: string) => Promise<{
+    events: IntakeEvent[];
+    meta: { total: number };
+  }> = (url) => apiGet(url),
+): Promise<{ events: IntakeEvent[] }> {
+  const events: IntakeEvent[] = [];
+  for (let offset = 0; ; offset += INTAKE_PAGE_SIZE) {
+    const page = await fetchPage(
+      `/api/medications/${medicationId}/intake?status=taken&sortBy=takenAt&sortDir=desc&limit=${INTAKE_PAGE_SIZE}&offset=${offset}`,
+    );
+    events.push(...page.events);
+    const oldest = page.events[page.events.length - 1];
+    const reachedHorizon =
+      !oldest?.takenAt || Date.parse(oldest.takenAt) < since.getTime();
+    if (
+      reachedHorizon ||
+      page.events.length < INTAKE_PAGE_SIZE ||
+      offset + INTAKE_PAGE_SIZE >= page.meta.total
+    ) {
+      break;
+    }
+  }
+  return {
+    events: events.filter(
+      (ev) => ev.takenAt && Date.parse(ev.takenAt) >= since.getTime(),
+    ),
+  };
+}
+
 interface IntakeEvent {
   id: string;
   takenAt: string | null;
@@ -147,9 +195,16 @@ export function DrugLevelChart({ medication, asOf }: DrugLevelChartProps) {
     queryKey: queryKeys.medicationIntakeDrugLevelChart(medication.id),
     queryFn: async () => {
       try {
-        return await apiGet<{ events: IntakeEvent[] }>(
-          `/api/medications/${medication.id}/intake?limit=20&sortBy=takenAt&sortDir=desc`,
+        const halfLifeHours =
+          GLP1_DRUGS[drugId!].pharmacology.halfLifeDays * HOURS_PER_DAY;
+        const since = new Date(
+          Date.now() -
+            (WINDOW_HOURS_BEFORE + HORIZON_HALF_LIVES * halfLifeHours) *
+              60 *
+              60 *
+              1000,
         );
+        return await loadTakenIntakesSince(medication.id, since);
       } catch {
         return null;
       }
diff --git a/src/components/symptoms/__tests__/load-symptom-events.test.ts b/src/components/symptoms/__tests__/load-symptom-events.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a9098f35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/symptoms/__tests__/load-symptom-events.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
+
+import type { SymptomEventDTO } from "@/lib/symptoms/shared";
+import { loadSymptomEvents, type SymptomEventList } from "../use-symptoms";
+
+/**
+ * A fake of `GET /api/symptoms/events`: newest first, `to` inclusive, at most
+ * `limit` rows, `hasMore` when the page is full.
+ */
+function fakeRoute(all: SymptomEventDTO[]) {
+  const urls: string[] = [];
+  const fetchPage = async (url: string): Promise<SymptomEventList> => {
+    urls.push(url);
+    const params = new URL(url, "http://localhost").searchParams;
+    const to = params.get("to")!;
+    const limit = Number(params.get("limit"));
+    const rows = all
+      .filter((e) => e.occurredAt <= to)
+      .sort((a, b) => (a.occurredAt < b.occurredAt ? 1 : -1))
+      .slice(0, limit);
+    return { events: rows, limit, hasMore: rows.length === limit };
+  };
+  return { urls, fetchPage };
+}
+
+function event(i: number, occurredAt: string): SymptomEventDTO {
+  return { id: `e-${i}`, occurredAt } as SymptomEventDTO;
+}
+
+describe("loadSymptomEvents", () => {
+  it("reads past the first page until the window is exhausted", async () => {
+    const base = Date.parse("2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z");
+    // 1,200 occurrences an hour apart, two of them sharing a page boundary.
+    const all = Array.from({ length: 1_200 }, (_, i) =>
+      event(i, new Date(base - i * 3_600_000).toISOString()),
+    );
+    all.push(event(9_999, all[499].occurredAt));
+    const { urls, fetchPage } = fakeRoute(all);
+
+    const out = await loadSymptomEvents(
+      "1900-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+      "2026-06-02T00:00:00.000Z",
+      "ep-1",
+      fetchPage,
+    );
+
+    expect(out.events).toHaveLength(1_201);
+    expect(new Set(out.events.map((e) => e.id)).size).toBe(1_201);
+    expect(out.hasMore).toBe(false);
+    expect(urls.length).toBeGreaterThan(2);
+    expect(urls.every((u) => u.includes("episodeId=ep-1"))).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("stops after one request when the first page is not full", async () => {
+    const { urls, fetchPage } = fakeRoute([
+      event(1, "2026-05-01T00:00:00.000Z"),
+    ]);
+    const out = await loadSymptomEvents(
+      "2026-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+      "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z",
+      null,
+      fetchPage,
+    );
+    expect(out.events).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(urls).toHaveLength(1);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/src/components/symptoms/use-symptoms.ts b/src/components/symptoms/use-symptoms.ts
index a95ebaed2..9c900f10c 100644
--- a/src/components/symptoms/use-symptoms.ts
+++ b/src/components/symptoms/use-symptoms.ts
@@ -55,9 +55,55 @@ export function useSymptomDefinitions(includeHidden = false, enabled = true) {
   });
 }
 
+/** Occurrences per request while walking a window. */
+const SYMPTOM_EVENTS_PAGE_SIZE = 500;
+
+/**
+ * Every occurrence inside `[from, to]` (ISO instants), newest first, read page
+ * by page. The route answers at most one page and says `hasMore`; each
+ * further page asks up to the oldest instant already read (`to` is
+ * inclusive, so the boundary instant comes back and is dropped by id). A
+ * chronic episode can hold more than one page, and a single capped read
+ * showed only its newest part.
+ */
+export async function loadSymptomEvents(
+  from: string,
+  to: string,
+  episodeId: string | null,
+  fetchPage: (url: string) => Promise<SymptomEventList> = (url) =>
+    apiGet<SymptomEventList>(url),
+): Promise<SymptomEventList> {
+  const seen = new Set<string>();
+  const events: SymptomEventDTO[] = [];
+  let upTo = to;
+  for (;;) {
+    const params = new URLSearchParams({
+      from,
+      to: upTo,
+      limit: String(SYMPTOM_EVENTS_PAGE_SIZE),
+    });
+    if (episodeId) params.set("episodeId", episodeId);
+    const page = await fetchPage(`/api/symptoms/events?${params}`);
+    let added = 0;
+    for (const event of page.events) {
+      if (seen.has(event.id)) continue;
+      seen.add(event.id);
+      events.push(event);
+      added += 1;
+    }
+    const oldest = page.events[page.events.length - 1];
+    // A page that adds nothing (a full page of one instant) cannot move the
+    // bound, so it ends the walk rather than repeating forever.
+    if (!page.hasMore || !oldest || added === 0) {
+      return { events, limit: SYMPTOM_EVENTS_PAGE_SIZE, hasMore: false };
+    }
+    upTo = oldest.occurredAt;
+  }
+}
+
 /**
  * Occurrences inside `[from, to]` (ISO instants), optionally only those filed
- * against one episode. At most 500, newest first.
+ * against one episode. Every one of them, newest first.
  */
 export function useSymptomEvents(
   from: string,
@@ -68,11 +114,7 @@ export function useSymptomEvents(
   return useQuery({
     queryKey: queryKeys.symptomEvents(from, to, episodeId),
     enabled: options.enabled ?? true,
-    queryFn: () => {
-      const params = new URLSearchParams({ from, to, limit: "500" });
-      if (episodeId) params.set("episodeId", episodeId);
-      return apiGet<SymptomEventList>(`/api/symptoms/events?${params}`);
-    },
+    queryFn: () => loadSymptomEvents(from, to, episodeId),
   });
 }