switched from 1.7mg to 2.4mg and reflux got better, not worse
switched from 1.7mg to 2.4mg and reflux got better, not worse. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.
The numbers the title promised, since a headline without them is worthless: 1.7mg and 2.4mg. Everything below is context for those.
Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.
Compared two draws across two labs and spent a week worrying before finding out the assays were different.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nobody here can interpret your panel and this comment is not doing so. What a board can usefully do is help you ask better questions of somebody who can.
Correction: that marker is reported in different units by different labs, which explains the tenfold difference you are seeing.
assay method matters, especially between different labs
Time of day, fasting state, hydration and recent exercise all move common markers. Standardising the draw conditions is free and it removes most of the apparent variability.
Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population. By construction one person in twenty falls outside one on any given test without anything being wrong.
Reference intervals are typically the central 95% of a reference population.
Adding the obvious one — take it to whoever ordered the panel. This board cannot read it for you.
The confounding problem, stated plainly, because this board keeps stepping on it.
Substantial weight loss moves lipids, liver enzymes, insulin sensitivity markers and several others in its own right. If you are losing weight while taking something, any change in those markers has at least two candidate explanations and you cannot separate them from your own panel.
What you can do is standardise, take a baseline, keep the series long, and be honest in your posts about what is and is not attributable. The threads that say "this compound did X to my ALT" almost never have the design to support the claim, mine included.