sean_dublin 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.
claudia_zurich said:One addition: if the lab changes analytical platform between your draws, the comparison breaks and nobody tells you.
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
sean_dublin said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Filing an objection on the n=1 problem. Personal experience is genuine evidence about one person and very weak evidence about anybody else, and this thread keeps promoting the first into the second.
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