MASHdoc_SA said:A defensible baseline is short: HbA1c and fasting glucose, a lipid panel with ApoB if you can get it, ALT and AST, creatinine with eGFR, TSH, ferritin…
Thank you — that is the clearest version of this I have read, and I have read a lot of them.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads.
Shot day Wednesday report relevant to baseline bloodwork:
Week 33. Currently on 15mg. Down 59 lbs from starting weight of 271 lbs.
This week's observations: Mild fatigue day 1-2 post-injection, then fine.
Labs due next week — looking forward to seeing the metabolic panel. I'll post results in the Lab Results section when they come in.
hyun_seoul said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Pushing back on hyun_seoul here. This treats a plausible mechanism as a demonstrated one. Plausible is where you start looking, not where you stop.
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Shop Reference StandardsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.
Happy to go further on any of that.
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