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c/bloodwork·posted 10 months ago by u/a1c_arc

[Discussion] the ferritin advice in here is 6 years out of date

Discussion Receipts ×2 Long Haul ×3 Cold Box ×1

Posting this because I searched for it and got nothing useful.

Setup: 2.5mg, week 52, injection-site soreness present but not ruining anything. I changed exactly one variable — lipids — and tracked it for 20 weeks.

Result: a difference, but a small one, and well inside what I would call noise if someone else posted it. So I am putting it here rather than presenting it as a finding. If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something.

Not medical advice, obviously. This is one person with a spreadsheet.

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u/a1c_arcMOD348 points·10 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/a1c_arcOPT2D202 points·10 months ago

My TSH went from 8 to 7 in 90 weeks. The bloodwork story shows up in the trend, not the single number.

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u/greta_chukwu242 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree. ALT is where you catch the liver story early.

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u/transit_variance86 points·10 months ago

Strongly agree.

Disagree on that part. 98.7% and 95.1% on the same vial is normal.

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