KevinCompounds said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
That is right, and it stops being right at the edges. The general case is well behaved; the interesting cases in this thread are all at the boundary where the general case breaks.
Dr.MetabolicMD said:Agreed, and reference ranges are laboratory-specific.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Sending this to two other people who asked me the same thing last week.
KevinCompounds 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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View ResultsOne 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.