too early for a1c
#bloodwork 2025-05-15
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Highlights from this day
- marrow.mod — triglycerides halved. is that the weight or the compound 19:52
- panel_before_after — the FLOW result is why my nephrologist changed her position on this entirely 20:23
- marrow.mod — i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about 20:24
- chaser_chris — a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry 22:02
coming back after 13 months, what changed in your numbers
lipase slightly over range with no symptoms, how worried should i be
lab error maybe
fasting insulin
nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods
thats a big move
is a fasting insulin worth paying for privately if my gp will not do it
nice a1c
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alt and ast coming down as you lose liver fat is common and is a good sign
ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year
fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests
my potassium came back weird and the retest was normal, whats that about
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thats normal
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
apob is the better marker and it is harder to get. i track both because i can only get one reliably
apob if you can
triglycerides halved. is that the weight or the compound
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thyroid moving slightly is common enough that i would repeat it before doing anything
the most useful thing i did was get a full panel before i started. everything since has been comparable
baseline, three months, then twice a year is what i settled on
post the numbers
homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system
good numbers
mine did the same
the FLOW result is why my nephrologist changed her position on this entirely
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i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about
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probably dehydration
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a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing
retest it
if your glucose is in mg/dL the divisor is 405. if it is mmol/L it is 22.5
ferritin is low, is that the drug or the not eating
see somebody
get a baseline
follow up fasting insulin came back higher than i expected, what does that actually mean
[edited]update from 4 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob
tsh moved slightly, is that a known thing
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get fasting insulin at baseline. you cannot go back and get it once you have started
what does homa-ir actually tell you that fasting insulin does not
most of the lipid improvement in my panel tracked the weight, not the drug
slightly off topic but crp is worth adding if you can, it moves in a useful direction on this, happy to be corrected
my b12 is borderline, supplementing or eating differently
i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise
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if you only get one thing, get a fasting insulin. it is the one that becomes impossible later
a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry
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