Nor was my personal lab sheet. First, I had to figure out the different categories--genetic, anti-nerve, etc., and then start collecting results. But I began this years ago, so I just enter things as they happen now. It's not hard once you've started, and trends can amaze you.

For instance, I knew that at one point my carnitine was low, and I take supplments, but putting them up and seeing that they'd been ordered several times, and if anything had gotten worse, not better, got me really going with that.

Thyroids are particularly important to chart, as we all have our personal "normals". I only feel well with my free T3 at the highest number, or even over, and looking at just a single reading wouldn't make it clear that I was well a year ago, at 430, but exhausted now, at a normal 330.

Doctors love it!

Take it slow, just keep it up.

And remember, the last chart is a checklist. You don't have to get tested for everything that causes your particular type of neuropathy at once, but just check off as they are done.