How I Used AI to Diagnose My Chronic Fatigue and Health Symptoms
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Amy Deng
Summary
A personal narrative about using AI tools (likely large language models) to track, analyze, and solve a mysterious chronic health condition causing intermittent fatigue, brain fog, and nausea. The author describes building a custom AI-powered health tracking system to identify patterns and triggers that traditional medical approaches failed to uncover, ultimately finding a solution through data-driven self-experimentation.
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When it hits, I couldn't trust myself to drive. Walking to a grocery store two minutes away feels impossible. Stringing a sentence together takes effort.
I was homebound for hours, so I texted a friend at 4 p.m. to cancel dinner, but then at 5 p.m. I felt completely fine.
So I lie on the couch watching people my age hustling across the street, building one of the fastest-growing products in AI.
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