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c/bloodwork·posted 3 months ago by u/janek_ferrari

is it normal to get injection-site soreness at week 87

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is it normal to get injection-site soreness at week 87. Same spreadsheet I have been keeping since the start, nothing retrofitted.

Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.

Tracked triglycerides against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing.

If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.

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u/elin_trevino356 points·3 months ago

ApoB counts atherogenic particles rather than the cholesterol they carry, which is why it can diverge from LDL-C and why it is the addition most worth making.

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u/liver_enzyme_lizMOD204 points·3 months ago

Identifying header cropped from the report above. Post the values, not the name and reference number.

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u/mikkel_ogunleye243 points·3 months ago

lab reference ranges are not treatment targets

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u/janek_ferrariOP-21 points·3 months ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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u/lipid_panel_larrybloodwork184 points·3 months ago

Did anything else change in that window — training, intake, hydration?

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u/cormac_roos64 points·3 months ago

one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend

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u/thermal_mass_tom39 points·3 months ago

one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend

cormac_roos is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.

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u/mikkel_ogunleye140 points·3 months ago

Have you taken this to whoever ordered it?

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u/thermal_mass_tom524 points·3 months ago

How to make a panel worth comparing, which is most of the value people leave on the table.

Standardise the conditions: same lab, same fasting state, same rough time of day, same point in the week, similar hydration. Take a baseline before you change anything. Repeat any surprising value before acting on it. Change one thing at a time if you want to attribute anything to it.

Do that and a year of panels is a trend. Skip it and a year of panels is a collection of unrelated mornings, which is what most of the alarmed posts here are actually describing.

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u/hugo_pires757 points·3 months ago

Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.

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u/mateusz_achebe285 points·3 months ago

Yes — same lab, same fasting state, same rough time of day, or the comparison is doing nothing.

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u/janek_ferrariOP121 points·3 months ago

Same lab as the previous draw?

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u/liv_okafor181 points·3 months ago

bring the numbers to someone qualified to read them

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u/ravi_sandvik127 points·3 months ago

Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.

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u/india_generic_g79 points·3 months ago

hydration status moves a surprising number of markers

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u/janek_ferrariOP30 points·3 months ago

Is that the same assay, or did the lab change platforms?

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u/mateusz_achebe17 points·3 months ago

Is that the same assay, or did the lab change platforms?

This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.

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u/liv_okafor6 points·3 months ago

baseline before you start is worth more than any later panel

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u/emeka_chowdhury70 points·3 months ago

assay method matters, especially between different labs

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u/cormac_roos47 points·3 months ago

Fasting or not, and what time of day?

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u/yara_mensah42 points·3 months ago

Agreed. The trend is the signal. A single value is a snapshot of one morning.

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u/kaia_kuusela28 points·3 months ago

My ferritin moved and I spent a fortnight convinced I knew why. The repeat six weeks later was back in range and I had changed nothing.

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