nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods
#bloodwork 2025-02-17
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Highlights from this day
- noct.titrate — ferritin is low, is that the drug or the not eating 12:32
- noct.titrate — do you fast for the full 12 hours or is 8 enough 12:53
- noct.titrate — fasting insulin came back higher than i expected, what does that actually mean 13:41
- tokyo_taper — an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase with severe pain is not 13:46
post the numbers
unrelated but homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system, ymmv
get a baseline
baseline, three months, then twice a year is what i settled on, i could be wrong
apob or ldl, which one are you all actually tracking
i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise, anyway
i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise
tsh moved slightly, is that a known thing
ferritin is low, is that the drug or the not eating
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do you fast for the full 12 hours or is 8 enough
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probably dehydration
the most useful thing i did was get a full panel before i started. everything since has been comparable
i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about, thats one data point
fasting insulin came back higher than i expected, what does that actually mean
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what does homa-ir actually tell you that fasting insulin does not
egfr dropped a few points, dehydration or something real
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an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase with severe pain is not
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a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing
is a fasting insulin worth paying for privately if my gp will not do it
apob if you can
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my alt has come down a lot since i started losing, is that expected
triglycerides halved. is that the weight or the compound
genuine question if you only get one thing, get a fasting insulin. it is the one that becomes impossible later
get fasting insulin at baseline. you cannot go back and get it once you have started
my b12 is borderline, supplementing or eating differently
anyone have before and after numbers they are willing to post
ok so not a chat question
a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic
my potassium came back weird and the retest was normal, whats that about
apob is the better marker and it is harder to get. i track both because i can only get one reliably
if a result frightens you, that is a conversation with a clinician. we will help you read it, we will not tell you it is fine
if your glucose is in mg/dL the divisor is 405. if it is mmol/L it is 22.5
lipase slightly over range with no symptoms, how worried should i be
update from 11 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob
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is crp worth adding to the panel
a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry
how much does the lipid panel move just from losing weight
what would make you stop and go and see somebody rather than post here
fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests