i log the lab, the date, the fasting time

i pay privately for fasting insulin because nobody will order it for me otherwise

my fasting insulin was the marker that moved earliest and most, and nobody would order it for me, that is one panel not a pattern

if you only get one thing, get a fasting insulin. it is the one that becomes impossible later, i log everything so i can check

the FLOW result is why my nephrologist changed her position on this entirely, not a clinician

homa-ir is fasting glucose times fasting insulin over a constant. the constant differs by unit system

panel came back i take the printout to my gp every time and they have never once been annoyed about it, baseline was two years ago

apob if you can

if you can only afford one extra marker, i took fasting insulin and i would take it again

get fasting insulin at baseline. you cannot go back and get it once you have started

i keep a spreadsheet with date, marker, value, unit and lab. it took an hour once and has paid for itself, nobody here is reading your bloods

not sure i follow, log the fasting time

b12 on a much lower intake is a real thing to watch and it is cheap to check

a result that changes what you do is worth paying for. a result that changes nothing is worth having anyway