a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic
#bloodwork 2025-03-18
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- thirty_min_wait — right so what should i get at baseline before i start 12:17
- thirty_min_wait — slightly off topic but 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 12:54
- cagri_curious — i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise 14:12
- surpass_two — my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely moved at all 15:54
too early for a1c
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while im here a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry
good numbers
anyone have before and after numbers they are willing to post
if your glucose is in mg/dL the divisor is 405. if it is mmol/L it is 22.5
update from 6 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob
ferritin is low, is that the drug or the not eating
right so what should i get at baseline before i start
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slightly off topic but 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
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homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system
crp is worth adding if you can, it moves in a useful direction on this
unrelated but apob is the better marker and it is harder to get. i track both because i can only get one reliably
i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise
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the most useful thing i did was get a full panel before i started. everything since has been comparable
probably dehydration
get a baseline
my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely moved at all
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