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c/bloodwork·submitted 2 months ago by u/lina_almeida

baseline labs — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right

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Quick one. Canada here. A1c works very differently where I live than in the threads that dominate the front page, and I keep seeing people confidently given advice that simply does not apply outside the US. Specifics: the route I used took 3 weeks and cost roughly what I expected. The admin was worse than the cost.…

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u/thermal_mass_tom53 points·2 months ago

Titration speed is a side-effect dial far more than an efficacy dial.

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u/valeria_karlsen15 points·2 months ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

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u/coring_the_stopper-28 points·2 months ago

A1c moves slowly, quarterly is plenty

Counter-anecdote: opposite result, same dose. Which mostly tells us the variance is huge.

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u/emil_agyeman4 points·2 months ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/rekha_mwangi4 points·2 months ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/mariam_mensa45 points·2 months ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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u/hedda_adeyemi11 points·2 months ago

ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy

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u/skip_week_sceptic6 points·2 months ago

redact identifying details from lab PDFs before posting

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