[Results] 86 weeks on 10mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring
Six-word version is the title — 86 weeks on 10mg, full numbers, ask me anything boring — and the rest is context.
86 weeks and 10mg — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend.
Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.
Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Substantial weight loss independently moves lipids, liver enzymes and several other markers. Attributing a change to a compound while losing weight is confounded by design.
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.
Tracked A1c against the weight trend for a year. The correlation was much weaker than I expected and that was worth knowing.
Did anything else change in that window — training, intake, hydration?
hydration status moves a surprising number of markers
Yes. Repeat before you react. Almost every alarming single value I have posted here regressed on the repeat.
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.
nothing on this board interprets your results for you
Standing reminder: nobody here interprets your results, and posts asking us to get a pointer to somebody who can.
Push back: a value just outside a reference interval is a common finding in healthy people. It is a reason to repeat.
Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to. Best five minutes I have spent on this.
Took a baseline the week before starting purely because this board told me to.
vito_chowdhury is right that a reference interval is not a target. It is a description of a population.
Fasting or not, and what time of day?
the trend line matters more than any single value
Yes — same lab, same fasting state, same rough time of day, or the comparison is doing nothing.
the trend line matters more than any single value
This is the sentence to read before anybody panics about a single value.
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