I gave this ignite talk on the main stage at the Quantified Self 2015 conference at the beautiful Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA.

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

2. I’ve got some autoimmune stuff

3. …leading to ‘symptom soup’

4. So many things impact how I feel

5. It’s a puzzle I’m always trying to solve
But that ain’t enough to make me track

6. I wanted to try to reduce a supplement

7. Long-term effects unknown!

8. Weird things happen when I reduce

9. So I decided to track again

10. Keeping track in my mind doesn’t work

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

13. I tracked symptoms, aggravators, etc.

14. I colored it with a hellish palette

15. I set a reminder & track nightly

16. Thus 18 months passed

17. I wasn’t able to reduce the supplement

18. But I stayed in control & learned lots

19. I sleep poorly (I was in denial)

20. Booze makes it worse

21. Exercise, baths improve sleep

22. My symptoms get BAD before my period

23. We changed my meds based on this

24. Exercise seems to help everything

25. Tracking laziness can mask changes

26. Spreadsheet + vacation = no data

27. On ‘eyeballing’ the data

28. On ‘eyeballing’ the data

29. Why I will continue

30. Thanks
@katiemccurdy