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c/bloodwork·submitted 26 days ago by u/copay_card_cc

[Results] 47 weeks, 8kg, and ferritin was the hard part

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47 weeks, 8kg, and ferritin was the hard part, logged the same way every week so the comparison is at least internally fair. Hard numbers: 47 weeks and 8kg. Anything softer than that is flagged as an impression. Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in…

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u/pavel_nkemelu41 points·25 days ago

My fasting insulin 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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u/bence_zamora15 points·25 days ago·edited

weight loss itself moves several of these independently

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u/isabela_guerrero12 points·25 days ago·edited

That is a non-fasting value and the interval you are comparing it against is a fasting one.

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u/copay_card_ccOP8 points·25 days ago

Do you have a baseline from before you started?

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u/copay_card_ccOP4 points·24 days ago

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

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u/copay_card_ccOP7 points·24 days ago·edited

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

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u/nayeli_iyer3 points·24 days ago

How many weeks between the two measurements?

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u/tomas_kimani14 points·25 days ago

Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.

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