PharmHunterJen said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Agreeing with PharmHunterJen, and the qualification matters more than the agreement. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
AussieAnna said:One addition: if the lab changes analytical platform between your draws, the comparison breaks and nobody tells you.
That reframing is the part I needed. I will report back once I have actually tried it.
PharmHunterJen said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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View ResultsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.