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#bloodwork 2025-06-21

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  • VialBot — On this day 7 years ago this channel logged 108 messages. 11:34
  • a1c_lag — fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests 11:43
  • secretagogue_sy — slightly off topic but update from 15 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob 12:11
  • secretagogue_sy — update on the earlier thing nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods a1c is a ninety day average.… 12:14
  • LC_MS_Lena — ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year 12:16
VI

my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely moved at all

VB

On this day 7 years ago this channel logged 108 messages.

A1

ferritin is low, is that the drug or the not eating

VI

thats a big move

Cited study
Semaglutide and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Obesity without Diabetes (SELECT)
New England Journal of Medicine · 2023
Hard cardiovascular endpoints in people with overweight or obesity and established disease.

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

is a fasting insulin worth paying for privately if my gp will not do it

lab error maybe

LM

my potassium came back weird and the retest was normal, whats that about

SS

slightly off topic but update from 15 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob

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update on the earlier thing nobody here is reading your bloods as a clinician. we are reading them as people who have had a lot of bloods
a1c is a ninety day average. retesting at week six tells you almost nothing

LM

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

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