#bloodwork 2024-09-07

Saturday18 messages5 participantstimes are UTC

Highlights from this day

surpass_two — anyone had a result that turned out to be a lab error 19:32
typosquat_tay — most of the lipid improvement in my panel tracked the weight, not the drug alt and ast coming down as you lose liver fat is common and is a good sign 19:43
typosquat_tay — for the archive fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests 20:30

see somebody

ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year

tsh moved slightly, is that a known thing

unrelated but an isolated lipase a bit over range with no symptoms is usually nothing. lipase with severe pain is not

fasting insulin came back higher than i expected, what does that actually mean

fasting insulin

baseline, three months, then twice a year is what i settled on

anyone had a result that turned out to be a lab error

📉1🙏14

most of the lipid improvement in my panel tracked the weight, not the drug
alt and ast coming down as you lose liver fat is common and is a good sign

💀12📈4👍1

if you only get one thing, get a fasting insulin. it is the one that becomes impossible later

mine did the same

baseline  58
wk 2      61
wk 4      64
wk 6      67
wk 8      66
wk 10     65   (held dose from wk 7)

while im here nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods

i had a potassium that came back high and the repeat was normal. the tube had been knocked about

too early for a1c

probably dehydration

for the archive fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests

👍8🔥17

the FLOW result is why my nephrologist changed her position on this entirely

unrelated but update from 20 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob, from memory