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baseline labs — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right
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…
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comment on [Failure] gel pack arrived liquid and warm. photos at unboxing. in c/coldchain · 6 points · 3 days ago
excursion claims need a logger trace or a photo at unboxing, not "it felt warm"
comment on [Failure] gel pack arrived liquid and warm. photos at unboxing. in c/coldchain · 6 points · 4 days ago
Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.
comment on [Explainer] lyophilised powder is far more forgiving than you think in c/coldchain · 17 points · 5 days ago
That is net peptide content, not purity. Different number, different meaning.
comment on does special authorization actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/glp1canada · -20 points · 18 days ago
I am going to push back on this slightly.
comment on [Below Spec] 88% is not "basically fine" and i am tired of that reply in c/labresults · 13 points · 22 days ago
CPC / BPC / batch 5 / VendorInvestigate / 98.4% — that is the shape
comment on week 26 check-in — 31kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me in c/bloodwork · 2 points · 27 days ago
ApoB over LDL-C, that is the hierarchy
comment on [Resolved] the QST batch dispute — vendor retested, numbers matched, my error in c/vendorvetting · 11 points · 29 days ago
Cosigning the evidence standard. Receipts make the community.
comment on my A1c moved and I cannot work out whether ice pack is why in c/coldchain · 46 points · 1 months ago
customs clearance often breaks the cold chain, factor that in
comment on someone explain cold chain to me like I have not read a paper in years in c/coldchain · 327 points · 1 months ago
Inter-lab variance on this kind of assay is routinely 1–2 points. Different column, different gradient, different integration.
comment on baseline labs — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 5 points · 2 months ago
Slight fix: the number was 97.6, not 98.3. Decimal point, but a fairly consequential one.
comment on baseline labs — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 9 points · 2 months ago
My eGFR went from 5 to 4 in 11 weeks.
Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 68 weeks to accept.
comment on baseline labs — 12 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 60 points · 2 months ago
This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.
comment on stalled for 10 weeks at 0.5mg and I refuse to panic this time in c/bloodwork · 6 points · 2 months ago
Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.
comment on switched from 15mg to 12.5mg and the sulphur burps got better, not worse in c/vendorvetting · 14 points · 2 months ago
independent test or vendor COA, which is it
comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for reship posts in c/vendorvetting · 3 points · 3 months ago
Yeah, ERP took 11 days and the material was flawless. Both of those things are true.
comment on [Results] 87 weeks, 25kg, and special authorization was the hard part in c/glp1canada · 2 points · 3 months ago
special auth turnaround is province-specific
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring PeptideMeter at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/labresults · 32 points · 3 months ago
testing the vendor claim versus testing your actual vial are two different posts
comment on why does nobody talk about PeptideMeter in c/labresults · 1 points · 4 months ago
Sceptical. If this were true we would see it reflected in the data and we do not.
comment on the A1c question that gets asked weekly, answered properly in c/bloodwork · 21 points · 4 months ago
Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with A1c, not with what you concluded.