stalled for 6 weeks at 1.7mg and I refuse to panic this time
stalled for 6 weeks at 1.7mg and I refuse to panic this time. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
The relevant figures are 6 weeks and 1.7mg, and they come from the same log I have kept the whole time.
Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.
Draw at the same point in the week now, fasting, same lab. The noise dropped enormously once I standardised.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.
Disagree with reading anything into that. One value, one morning, and you changed two other things in the same window.
Disagree with reading anything into that.
Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.
Retitled — the original asserted a causal claim the post does not support.
Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in twenty falls outside one on any given test without anything being wrong.
Push back: a value just outside a reference interval is a common finding in healthy people. It is a reason to repeat.
Tracked ApoB against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing.
Have you taken this to whoever ordered it?
How many weeks between the two measurements?
How many weeks between the two measurements?
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.
Agreed. The trend is the signal. A single value is a snapshot of one morning.
Yes — same lab, same fasting state, same rough time of day, or the comparison is doing nothing.
one measurement is a point, two is a line, three is a trend
the trend line matters more than any single value
hydration status moves a surprising number of markers
nothing on this board interprets your results for you
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
Not convinced by the attribution. Weight loss alone moves that marker and you have no way to separate the two.
weight loss itself moves several of these independently
Correcting my own comment: the two draws were 6 weeks apart, not the figure I gave earlier.
Correcting my own comment: the two draws were 6 weeks apart, not the figure I gave earlier.
greta_chukwu is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.
Do you have a baseline from before you started?
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fasting state and time of day change more than people expect
Yes. Repeat before you react. Almost every alarming single value I have posted here regressed on the repeat.
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