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c/bloodwork·posted 2 years ago by u/britt_marchand

[Vendor] QST order #19 — Spain, 29 days, no drama, receipts inside

Concerning Receipts ×3 Slow Clap ×1 Cold Box ×2

Confession thread, sort of.

I went from 1.7mg to 0.25mg much faster than I should have because the scale had stalled and I got impatient. The stall broke about 21 weeks later, at which point I had no way of knowing whether the dose increase did anything or whether it would have broken anyway.

So now I have injection-site soreness I did not need and a data point I cannot interpret. Two lessons in one.

Posting it in the hope that somebody at week 85 reads it before doing the same thing.

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u/skip_week_sceptic326 points·2 years ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/ismael_eriksen257 points·2 years ago

baseline is the most important lipids measurement, you cannot collect it later

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u/lipid_panel_larryMOD129 points·2 years ago

Retitled to remove editorialising. Put the evidence in the body.

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u/karl_fischer_kev35 points·2 years ago

What are your reference ranges?

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u/britt_marchandOP-14 points·2 years ago

eGFR noise during rapid loss is expected

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u/bence_zamora1 point·2 years ago·edited

This is the "correlation is mechanism" thing again. You changed three variables at once.

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u/tomas_kimani1 point·2 years ago

Not to be pedantic but ApoB and bloodwork are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/freya_baptista29 points·2 years ago

What are your reference ranges?

Adding to this: lipids is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/copay_card_cc19 points·2 years ago

baseline is the most important ferritin measurement, you cannot collect it later

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u/diego_sorensen13 points·2 years ago

ApoB from 7 to 7 is movement, not noise

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u/noor_cardoso34 points·2 years ago

This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.

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u/emil_agyeman44 points·2 years ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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u/kenji_kimani30 points·2 years ago

ferritin tanks quietly on a reduced appetite, check it

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u/no_refunds_nr122 points·2 years ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/cardio_endpoint_c70 points·2 years ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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u/diego_sorensen146 points·2 years ago

Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.

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u/santiago_szabo75 points·2 years ago

ferritin tanks quietly on a reduced appetite, check it

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u/isabela_guerrero74 points·2 years ago

the 14 month bloodwork check is the routine

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u/cormac_roos48 points·2 years ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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u/noor_cardoso72 points·2 years ago
batch number?
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u/liver_enzyme_liz54 points·2 years ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/britt_marchandOP39 points·2 years ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

Adding to this: ApoB is doing more work than the comment implies.

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What to measure before you start, what to re-measure, and how to interpret movement without panicking. ApoB over LDL-C, HOMA-IR as a crude free tool, ALT and the fatty-liver story, eGFR noise during rapid loss, and the deficiencies that a 1,100-calorie appetite will hand you.

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