RickReta_CO said:A defensible baseline is short: HbA1c and fasting glucose, a lipid panel with ApoB if you can get it, ALT and AST, creatinine with eGFR, TSH, ferritin…
Blood work came back perfect. baseline bloodwork + this community = winning. 🏆
Following on from PedsEndoPhilly — and this may be the naive question:
How often to repeat it, because quarterly seems to be the convention and I cannot find the reasoning?
PeptideSynthNJ said:baseline bloodwork + this community = winning.
Shot day Thursday report relevant to baseline bloodwork:
Week 16. Currently on 0.5mg. Down 32 lbs from starting weight of 244 lbs.
This week's observations: Energy levels excellent, zero nausea.
Labs due next week — looking forward to seeing the metabolic panel. I'll post results in the Lab Results section when they come in.
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Took the whole panel in rather than the one flagged line, and the conversation lasted two minutes instead of generating three more tests.
julia.endo said:Shot day Thursday report relevant to baseline bloodwork: Week 16.
Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific. Comparing your number to somebody else's range, or to a screenshot from another country, is how people convince themselves something is wrong.