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c/bloodwork·submitted 6 months ago by u/edit_for_clarity

am I the only one who found baseline labs harder than the injections

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Week 37 update. 13kg down from the start, muscle cramps basically gone since about week 89. Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with muscle cramps. The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin.…

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u/laila_yilmaz190 points·5 months ago

Yeah, baseline matters more than any later number.

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u/anders_vermeulen128 points·5 months ago

eGFR noise on rapid loss is real. 19 week noise, 13 week trend. Do not panic at week 42.

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u/coa_forgery_watch102 points·5 months ago

nobody here can tell you what a result means for you

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u/osman_eriksen83 points·5 months ago

This is correct. ApoB is the better marker.

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u/britt_marchand150 points·5 months ago

HOMA-IR is crude but free and useful for tracking

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