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nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning
Something I keep coming back to: nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning. Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the…
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comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about lipids are guesswork in c/bloodwork · 9 points · 2 months ago
Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.
comment on stalled for 6 weeks at 2.5mg and I refuse to panic this time in c/bloodwork · 0 points · 2 months ago
How many weeks between the two measurements?
comment on what changed for me between month 10 and month 18 in c/bloodwork · 62 points · 5 months ago
Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.
comment on what changed for me between month 10 and month 18 in c/bloodwork · 72 points · 5 months ago
Did anything else change in that window — training, intake, hydration?
comment on why does nobody talk about baseline labs in c/bloodwork · 10 points · 5 months ago
lab reference ranges are not treatment targets
comment on my TSH moved and I cannot work out whether ferritin is why in c/bloodwork · 3 points · 6 months ago
The confounding problem, stated plainly, because this board keeps stepping on it.
edit_for_clarity is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.
comment on [Discussion] ApoB is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/bloodwork · 7 points · 8 months ago
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
comment on [Results] 51 weeks on 1.7mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring in c/bloodwork · 349 points · 11 months ago
ApoB is the one worth adding if you only add one
comment on the bloodwork question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/bloodwork · 31 points · 1 year ago
Substantial weight loss independently moves lipids, liver enzymes and several other markers. Attributing a change to a compound while losing weight is confounded by design.
comment on A1c — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 4 points · 1 year ago
assay method matters, especially between different labs
comment on A1c — 9 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 23 points · 1 year ago
Right, and weight loss itself moves several markers, so attribution is harder than these threads assume.
comment on the ApoB thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/bloodwork · 70 points · 1 year ago
Push back: a value just outside a reference interval is a common finding in healthy people. It is a reason to repeat.
comment on reading ALT threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/bloodwork · -28 points · 1 year ago
Brought the whole set to my clinician rather than one flagged value. Completely different conversation.
comment on nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning in c/bloodwork · 146 points · 2 years ago
weight loss itself moves several of these independently
comment on nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning in c/bloodwork · 32 points · 2 years ago
Is that the same assay, or did the lab change platforms?
comment on nobody warned me about reflux and I would have liked the warning in c/bloodwork · 1 points · 2 years ago
do not change three things and then read the panel
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about A1c in c/bloodwork · 2 points · 2 years ago
Different laboratories use different assay platforms with different calibration.
Agreed — and standardising the draw conditions is the cheapest improvement available.
comment on the baseline labs question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/bloodwork · 63 points · 2 years ago
ask whether the lab changed its assay between your two draws