Dr.GastroMayo said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
No disagreement, though the timescale matters more than the mechanism here. Most of what looks like a difference in kind turns out to be a difference in how long somebody waited.
EndoResFellow 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.
Dr.GastroMayo said:PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I think the framing smuggles in the conclusion. Ask it the other way round and the obvious answer reverses, which usually means the question is doing the work.
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View ResultsAdding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Keep the original post as written when you update it, and add the correction underneath. An edited-away mistake is invisible to the next person who makes it.
Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.
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