• Health

    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…