i’ve kept a log since month three. activity hours, symptoms, what felt ok then didn’t. eighteen months in: patterns are messier than you’d expect. log what matters.
total activity hours (not breaks). what you did. what crashed - fatigue, POTS, brain fog, everything at once. the timing: some hit same day.
some sneak in on day three. log your setup. sleep, stress, cycle if relevant. your window shifts between weeks.
that’s not failure - that’s real data. here’s the hard truth: logs sometimes show your envelope. sometimes they don’t. mine keeps moving.
but when i export the whole thing as a pdf for my neuro appointment, he listens differently. i stopped saying “i feel worse sometimes.” now it’s “here’s what the data actually shows.”