ferritin — my 22-week log, condensed into one table
ferritin — my 22-week log, condensed into one table. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. My A1c moved and I spent a fortnight convinced I knew why. The repeat six weeks later was back in range and I had changed nothing. Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying…
Same view — ApoB if you add one thing. It answers a question the standard panel only gestures at.
weight loss itself moves several of these independently
lab reference ranges are not treatment targets
same lab, same conditions, or you are comparing noise
Cosigning on baseline. The panel I regret most is the one I did not take before starting.
weight loss itself moves several of these independently
micro_bump_mick is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.
Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine.
That is a non-fasting value and the interval you are comparing it against is a fasting one.