a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic
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- lean_mass_lex — a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic 18:03
- lean_mass_lex — i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about, happy to be corrected 19:19
- bengaluru_bac — update from 15 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob 19:36
- lean_mass_lex — a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing, for what its worth 20:28
mine did the same
egfr dropped a few points, dehydration or something real
what does homa-ir actually tell you that fasting insulin does not
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nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods
do you get bloods every 2 months or only when something changes
thats normal
is a fasting insulin worth paying for privately if my gp will not do it
slightly off topic but is it too early to retest a1c at week 26
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thats a big move
update on the earlier thing triglycerides halved. is that the weight or the compound
i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about, happy to be corrected
baseline 58
wk 2 61
wk 4 64
wk 6 67
wk 8 66
wk 10 65 (held dose from wk 7)apob is the better marker and it is harder to get. i track both because i can only get one reliably
fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests
the FLOW result is why my nephrologist changed her position on this entirely, i think
update from 15 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob
before after
A1c 6.4% 5.3%
trigs 2.9 1.1
HDL 0.9 1.3
LDL-C 3.4 3.2
apoB 1.09 1.02
ALT 58 24if you only get one thing, get a fasting insulin. it is the one that becomes impossible later
genuine question is there any point getting a1c if i am not diabetic
[edited]apob if you can
get a baseline
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nice a1c
baseline, three months, then twice a year is what i settled on
a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing, for what its worth
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my b12 is borderline, supplementing or eating differently
anyone had a result that turned out to be a lab error
crp is worth adding if you can, it moves in a useful direction on this
ferritin is low, is that the drug or the not eating
thyroid moving slightly is common enough that i would repeat it before doing anything
a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic
homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system
lean_mass_lexapob is the better marker and it is harder to get. i track both because i can only get…
i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise
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get fasting insulin at baseline. you cannot go back and get it once you have started
the most useful thing i did was get a full panel before i started. everything since has been comparable, for what its worth
most of the lipid improvement in my panel tracked the weight, not the drug