ingrid_STO said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.
LindaRN_retired said:Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.
ingrid_STO said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.
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