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Personal data and health decisions
A few weeks ago I went to the doctor. Nothing urgent. It had been five years since I had a physical and one year since I came in for headaches and shoulder pain. I started in at the chiropractor in winter and that resolved the shoulder issue. However, as the new year started, the headaches were persistent and that’s not normal for me. I know all the usual triggers for headaches, but couldn’t tell by passive observation whether or not I was experiencing them. I also couldn’t tell if my treatment was working. So I did what any normal scientist would do, I starrted tracking it. The parameters I was…
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Health
I just took off several days from work. I spent part of it going in for a medical procedure (elective and outpatient) and then spend some recovering. I also had a regular physical to get that up do date and discuss tweaking treatment for my headaches. We reclassified them as migranes and are working with different medication. I brought the data that I had tracked. It helped define things and make decisions. I was glad I tracked it and I seemed to cover the right things. One of the interesting things uncovered was that I don’t take the medication as often as I probably should. If I am only experiencing…