do you fast for the full 12 hours or is 8 enough
#bloodwork 2025-06-28
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- meniscus_mel — ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year 12:48
- meniscus_mel — how much does the lipid panel move just from losing weight 14:22
- nordic_price_nils — a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase… 14:34
- nordic_price_nils — homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system 14:35
- VialBot — Verification log updated: CPC — evidence added, status unchanged. 15:43
ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year
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thyroid moving slightly is common enough that i would repeat it before doing anything
*that should say weekly
is a fasting insulin worth paying for privately if my gp will not do it
an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase with severe pain is not
quick one fasting insulin came back higher than i expected, what does that actually mean
unrelated but what would make you stop and go and see somebody rather than post here
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
how much does the lipid panel move just from losing weight
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 24a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry
an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase with severe pain is not
homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system
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a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing
the FLOW result is why my nephrologist changed her position on this entirely
triglycerides halved. is that the weight or the compound
nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods
Verification log updated: CPC — evidence added, status unchanged.
good numbers
thats a big move
sorry to jump in anyone have before and after numbers they are willing to post
anyone had a result that turned out to be a lab error
retest it
a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic
fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests
lab error maybe
get a baseline
for the archive what should i get at baseline before i start