a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic
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#bloodwork 2026-06-21
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- customs_owl — a small egfr dip is often dehydration. rehydrate and retest before you panic 22:36
- mira_pins — nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods 22:52
- two_four_ceiling — 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 23:25
most of the lipid improvement in my panel tracked the weight, not the drug
do you fast for the full 12 hours or is 8 enough
post the numbers
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alt and ast coming down as you lose liver fat is common and is a good sign
[edited]i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise
ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year
not a chat question
Digest for the week of 2026-02-01 has been published.
i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about, i could be wrong
nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods
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my alt has come down a lot since i started losing, is that expected
ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year
if your glucose is in mg/dL the divisor is 405. if it is mmol/L it is 22.5
a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry
apob if you can
slightly off topic but if you only get one thing, get a fasting insulin. it is the one that becomes impossible later
an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase with severe pain is not
a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing
nice a1c
my b12 is borderline, supplementing or eating differently
thats a big move
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how much does the lipid panel move just from losing weight
*PeptideMeter not the other one
crp is worth adding if you can, it moves in a useful direction on this, thats one data point
my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely moved at all
what does homa-ir actually tell you that fasting insulin does not
my potassium came back weird and the retest was normal, whats that about
triglycerides halved. is that the weight or the compound
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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get fasting insulin at baseline. you cannot go back and get it once you have started, i think
thyroid moving slightly is common enough that i would repeat it before doing anything
sorry to jump in the most useful thing i did was get a full panel before i started. everything since has been comparable
get a baseline
update from 15 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob
quick one fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests
is it too early to retest a1c at week 34