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c/bloodwork·posted 1 year ago by u/coldchain_karen

baseline labs: the version I wish someone had shown me in week 1

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Been lurking in c/reconstitution for about 8 months and finally have something worth posting.

Short version: week 30, 7.5mg, and baseline labs is the bit I still cannot get a straight answer on. I have read the wiki, I have read the last 7 threads, and the answers split roughly down the middle.

What I actually want to know is whether the people saying it does not matter have measured it, or whether it is just repeated confidently. Happy to be told I am overthinking this — I probably am — but I would rather overthink it now than at week 36.

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u/emeka_chowdhury0 points·1 year ago

This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.

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u/vito_chowdhury1 point·1 year ago

Is that fasted?

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u/bac_water_banditreconstitution1 point·1 year ago

the 14 month eGFR check is the routine

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u/customs_seizure_sid1 point·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 19 weeks, not 13. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/mikkel_kimani1 point·1 year ago

Small correction: the trial was 19 weeks, not 13.

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

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u/freya_baptista1 point·1 year ago

ALT is where the fatty-liver story shows up first

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u/noor_cardoso-24 points·1 year ago

I am going to push back on this slightly.

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u/coldchain_karenOPcold chain1 point·1 year ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/kaia_kuusela1 point·1 year ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/jarno_karlsen1 point·1 year ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/nayeli_iyer297 points·1 year ago

Every time this gets posted it hits the front page and every time someone has to re-explain it.

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u/kaia_kuusela196 points·1 year ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/coring_the_stopper149 points·1 year ago

What are your reference ranges?

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u/bence_zamora96 points·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with eGFR, not with what you concluded.

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u/peptidemeter_pat38 points·1 year ago

the 11 month bloodwork check is the routine

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u/coldchain_karenOPcold chain42 points·1 year ago

eGFR noise on rapid loss is real. 23 week noise, 19 week trend. Do not panic at week 67.

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u/coldchain_karenOPcold chain102 points·1 year ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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