Dr.NateNeph said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Can confirm. Same sequence, different timescale. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
kate.chem said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
This is my experience too, for whatever a second data point is worth.
kate.chem said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. One habit that pays for itself: post the method alongside the number. A figure without its method cannot be checked, and an unchecked figure is how this community accumulates folklore.