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Spreadsheet from hell What I learned in 18 months of tracking my health Katie McCurdy @katiemccurdy

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Page 1: My Spreadsheet from Hell

Spreadsheet from hellWhat I learned in 18 months of tracking my health

Katie McCurdy • @katiemccurdy

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I’ve got some autoimmune stuff

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…leading to ‘symptom soup’

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So many things impact how I feel

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It’s a puzzle I’m always trying to solve

But that ain’t enough to make me track

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I wanted to try to reduce a supplement

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Long-term effects unknown!

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Weird things happen when I reduce

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So I decided to track again

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Keeping track in my mind doesn’t work

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I didn’t want to track in the moment, and didn’t want to track food.

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I tracked symptoms, aggravators, etc.

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I colored it with a hellish palette

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I set a reminder & track nightly

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Thus 18 months passed

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I wasn’t able to reduce the supplement

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But I stayed in control & learned lots

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I sleep poorly (I was in denial)

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Booze makes it worse

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Exercise, baths improve sleep

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My symptoms get BAD before my period

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We changed my meds based on this

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Exercise seems to help everything

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Tracking laziness can mask changes

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Spreadsheet + vacation = no data

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On ‘eyeballing’ the data

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On ‘eyeballing’ the data

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Why I will continue

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Thanks

@katiemccurdy