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#bloodwork 2025-11-06

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  • apnoea_down_two — fast properly or do not bother. an eight hour fast and a twelve hour fast are different tests 19:16
  • nine_nine_one — lipase slightly over range with no symptoms, how worried should i be 19:21
  • site_itch — a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry, still working it out 19:37
  • identity_shift — do you get bloods every 2 months or only when something changes 20:45
  • gus_charts — homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely… 22:10
NN

if your glucose is in mg/dL the divisor is 405. if it is mmol/L it is 22.5

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NN

my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely moved at all, ask me again in a month

AD

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

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mine did the same

unrelated but what would make you stop and go and see somebody rather than post here

NN

lipase slightly over range with no symptoms, how worried should i be

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not a chat question

slightly off topic but is it too early to retest a1c at week 9
ferritin and b12 fall quietly when you are barely eating. check them twice a year

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see somebody

a single weird electrolyte is very often a handling artefact. retest before you worry, still working it out

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too early for a1c

DO

most of the lipid improvement in my panel tracked the weight, not the drug

DO

the most useful thing i did was get a full panel before i started. everything since has been comparable

IS

do you get bloods every 2 months or only when something changes

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

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

DO

update from 19 months ago: a1c down, apob unchanged, and i am genuinely annoyed about the apob

RW

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

post the numbers

thyroid moving slightly is common enough that i would repeat it before doing anything

unrelated but alt and ast coming down as you lose liver fat is common and is a good sign

GC

homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system
my numbers: a1c and triglycerides both moved a lot, ldl barely moved at all

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