sarah_TO said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Agreed, and one caution: a single measurement is not a measurement. Anything that moves day to day needs a trend before it means anything at all.
Happy to go further on any of that.
NurseAsh_DET said:One addition: if the lab changes analytical platform between your draws, the comparison breaks and nobody tells you.
That reframing is the part I needed. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
sarah_TO said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
I read this differently. The confidence in this thread is running ahead of the evidence, and I would rather the uncertainty were stated than smoothed over because it is unsatisfying.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne concrete data point for the thread. The boring version of this is the one that works, and the boring version is: measure a baseline, change one variable, wait, measure again under the same conditions. Nobody wants that answer and it is still the answer.
If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.
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