Dr.SleepRoch said:Quarterly for the first year is convention rather than evidence, and it is defensible for a simple reason: it is roughly the interval over which HbA1c…
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would drop the "get everything" instinct further than this thread does. Every extra test is another chance at a false positive, and incidental findings have their own cost in scans, biopsies and worry.
traveltech_sara said:My prescriber ordered three tests and this board recommends about twenty, and I would like to know which of those two lists is right.
Blood work came back perfect. baseline bloodwork + this community = winning. 🏆
MikeFit_NJ said:I would drop the "get everything" instinct further than this thread does.
Shot day Friday report relevant to baseline bloodwork:
Week 22. Currently on 0.5mg. Down 18 lbs from starting weight of 230 lbs.
This week's observations: Slight injection site redness, resolved in 24h.
Labs due next week — looking forward to seeing the metabolic panel. I'll post results in the Lab Results section when they come in.
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View ResultsFollowing on from NeuroNate — and this may be the naive question:
How often to repeat it, because quarterly seems to be the convention and I cannot find the reasoning?
Reporting back.
Took the whole panel in rather than the one flagged line, and the conversation lasted two minutes instead of generating three more tests.