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Your TSH is probably fine. Get it checked anyway if you are symptomatic.
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comment on how much of what we believe about ferritin actually comes from bloodwork threads in c/bloodwork · 113 points · 1 year ago
Panicked about a single result, posted here, got told to repeat it, repeated it, and it was fine.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about baseline labs until somebody posts a number in c/bloodwork · 2 points · 1 year ago
Agreed. The trend is the signal. A single value is a snapshot of one morning.
comment on what changed for me between month 6 and month 14 in c/tirzepatide · 1 points · 1 year ago
Pen or vial?
This. The step interval is a floor, and reading it as a timetable is the most expensive mistake in the thread.
comment on [Lab] WWB BPC — Medutest came back 99.4% against a claimed 98.5% in c/labresults · 213 points · 1 year ago
If the report gives a mass spectrum as well as UV purity, say so. Identity and relative quantity are separate claims and the log tracks both.
comment on do test results actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/labresults · 273 points · 1 year ago
net peptide content if the report gives it, and say which you are quoting
Disagreeing with this line: that gap is ordinary variance, not a contradiction between the lab and the certificate.
comment on small win: dual agonist stopped being a problem at week 50 in c/tirzepatide · 34 points · 1 year ago
2.5mg is a four-week starting dose, not a maintenance dose. Worth being precise since people search these threads.
comment on reading ALT threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/bloodwork · 50 points · 1 year ago
Time of day, fasting state, hydration and recent exercise all move common markers. Standardising the draw conditions is free and it removes most of the apparent variability.
comment on [Meta] the SURPASS rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/tirzepatide · 0 points · 2 years ago
Are you comparing yourself with the trial mean or with the people who post the most?
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about A1c in c/bloodwork · 2 points · 2 years ago
ask whether the lab changed its assay between your two draws
comment on tirzepatide: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1 in c/tirzepatide · 126 points · 2 years ago
Small fix: SURMOUNT is the obesity programme, SURPASS is the type-2 programme. They are different endpoints and the numbers do not transfer.
comment on genuine question about SURMOUNT that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/tirzepatide · -10 points · 2 years ago
the four-week step schedule is the label, not folklore
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about GIP is guesswork in c/tirzepatide · 39 points · 2 years ago
Came off sema and onto tirz with a two-week gap. The first month was flat and I assumed I had made a mistake. Month two it moved.
comment on [Meta] the SURMOUNT rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/tirzepatide · 0 points · 2 years ago
Appetite effect for me is flat across seven days. On sema it was a wave. Same person, different molecule.
comment on [Meta] the SURMOUNT rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining in c/tirzepatide · -21 points · 2 years ago
The step schedule question, answered properly, because it comes up weekly.
The label sets a minimum interval of four weeks between increases. That is a floor on how fast you may go, and it exists because tolerability, not efficacy, is what limits most people. There is nothing in the pharmacology that says you must increase at four weeks, or at eight, or ever.
What decides it in practice is whether the effect you want is still there. If appetite is quiet and the trend is going the right way, the dose is doing its job. If both have genuinely gone flat for six weeks or more, that is a conversation worth having with someone who knows your history.