i’m trying something kinda dumb, but i just started logging everything in my phone notes - symptoms, sleep hours, work stress levels (carpentry days are rough), and the numbers from my labs (TSH/free T3/A1c) whenever i get them. it’s mostly pattern matching so far. like when my cortisol seems off based on symptoms, it lines up with a time window where my energy crashes way harder than usual.
maybe it’s not the number itself, but the timing that matters. im just need to show doc something more specific than ‘i feel worse sometime’. i’ve got three different metrics (insulin resistance markers, TSH range, sleep quality score) all pointing in slightly different directions right now.
i keep wondering if it’s impossible to find a clear pattern when you’re dealing with metabolic stuff. for anyone else tracking this aggressively: what was the weirdest, most non-obvious correlation you found between two totally unrelated markers?