Australia — has anyone got a straight answer on tier 3. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months. Two years and four months on…
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9.1 → 5.4 over 14 months with a GLP-1 and a walking habit. Charts in profile.
long-standing contributor · T2D · joined 5 Jan 2024
Overview — page 2 of 3
comment on week 71 check-in — 23kg down, muscle cramps manageable, one thing confusing me in c/bloodwork · 42 points · 6 months ago
Left up. It is a question about how to compare panels, not a request for interpretation.
comment on what would you tell week-1 you about glycaemic control in c/t2dglp1 · 48 points · 7 months ago
Identifying details redacted from the exported report above.
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about T2D until somebody posts a number in c/t2dglp1 · 17 points · 8 months ago
sensor accuracy varies and the first day of a sensor is the worst
comment on [Meta] proposal — a flair for baseline labs posts in c/bloodwork · 1 points · 9 months ago
same lab, same conditions, or you are comparing noise
comment on three years of metformin threads, summarised so you do not have to read them in c/t2dglp1 · 9 points · 10 months ago
Retitled — the original quoted an obesity endpoint as a glycaemic one.
comment on reading MHRA threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/glp1uk · 44 points · 10 months ago
Read the MHRA notice rather than the news coverage and the actual scope was much narrower than the panic threads suggested.
comment on reading ferritin threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/bloodwork · 53 points · 10 months ago
Retitled — the original asserted a causal claim the post does not support.
comment on [Question] the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on private prescription in c/glp1uk · 88 points · 10 months ago
Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.
comment on reading glycaemic control threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/t2dglp1 · 361 points · 11 months ago
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comment on why does nobody talk about pricing in c/glp1uk · 17 points · 11 months ago
Careful, that pricing figure is a headline offer with conditions attached rather than the actual monthly cost.
comment on [Question] MHRA — what am I missing here in c/glp1uk · 11 points · 1 year ago
Not convinced — the US threads are a different system entirely and importing their advice here does real harm.
comment on [Question] MHRA — what am I missing here in c/glp1uk · 5 points · 1 year ago
A private prescription is an independent route: it does not affect NHS list position, and it is not a step in the same pathway.
comment on [Question] how do you actually verify tier 3 in c/glp1uk · 8 points · 1 year ago
Pharmacy pricing on a private prescription is set by the pharmacy. The spread between them in a given month is routinely substantial, which is why a tracker built from member reports is more useful than any headline.
comment on ferritin — my 22-week log, condensed into one table in c/bloodwork · 0 points · 1 year ago
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.
comment on [Discussion] the metformin advice in here is 2 years out of date in c/t2dglp1 · 3 points · 1 year ago
nothing here replaces the person managing your diabetes
comment on anyone else notice lipids kicking in around week 9 in c/bloodwork · 0 points · 1 year ago
Do you have a baseline from before you started?
comment on anyone else notice lipids kicking in around week 9 in c/bloodwork · 0 points · 1 year ago
Correcting my own comment: the two draws were 14 weeks apart, not the figure I gave earlier.
comment on [Question] CGM — what am I missing here in c/t2dglp1 · 16 points · 1 year ago
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comment on anyone else notice lipids kicking in around week 9 in c/bloodwork · 150 points · 1 year ago
Small fix — a reference interval is not a treatment target, and the post above uses them interchangeably.
anyone else notice lipids kicking in around week 9. Numbers below. Ask me the boring questions, they are the useful ones. Reference intervals are typically the central…
comment on genuine question about units that I am slightly embarrassed to ask in c/reconstitution · 48 points · 1 year ago
Correction: that gives 30 units, not what you have written. 5mg into 1mL is 5mg/mL and the division follows from there.
comment on the province thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down in c/glp1canada · 11 points · 1 year ago
Was this a denied authorization or a rejected claim?
comment on does reconstitution actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/reconstitution · 6 points · 1 year ago
Correcting myself above: I wrote the concentration the wrong way up. Mass over volume, not volume over mass.
comment on does reconstitution actually matter or is it forum lore at this point in c/reconstitution · 39 points · 1 year ago
Asked JEEP what volume they reconstitute to for their own stability testing and they answered in one line. Useful thing to know.
comment on what changed for me between month 11 and month 20 in c/t2dglp1 · 18 points · 1 year ago
Incretin-based agents stimulate insulin secretion in a glucose-dependent manner, which is why hypoglycaemia risk with them alone is low. Risk rises with agents that act independently of glycaemia.
comment on tried ApoB for 18 weeks. here is what happened. in c/bloodwork · 275 points · 1 year ago
Identifying header cropped from the report above. Post the values, not the name and reference number.
comment on [Discussion] special authorization is doing more work than we give it credit for in c/glp1canada · 46 points · 1 year ago
Nothing here is medical or legal advice. The pharmacist and the prescriber are the people who can act, and both are faster than a forum.
comment on how much of what we believe about bloodwork actually comes from baseline labs threads in c/bloodwork · 20 points · 1 year ago
Added ApoB to the panel after a thread here. It told me something the standard lipid panel had been hiding.
comment on how much of what we believe about bloodwork actually comes from baseline labs threads in c/bloodwork · 71 points · 1 year ago
Retitled — the original asserted a causal claim the post does not support.
comment on ferritin — 15 things I got wrong before I got it right in c/bloodwork · 9 points · 1 year ago
Careful — that is a question for whoever ordered the panel, and nobody in this thread can answer it responsibly.
Disagreeing with this bit: that change is confounded by the weight loss itself and cannot be attributed.
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about T2D is guesswork in c/t2dglp1 · 55 points · 1 year ago
a1c can be affected by things that have nothing to do with glucose
comment on unpopular opinion: most of what gets said here about T2D is guesswork in c/t2dglp1 · 115 points · 1 year ago
Left up. It distinguishes the sensor data from the lab result, which most posts here do not.
comment on how much of what we believe about eGFR actually comes from A1c threads in c/bloodwork · 12 points · 1 year ago
Retitled — the original asserted a causal claim the post does not support.
comment on how much of what we believe about eGFR actually comes from A1c threads in c/bloodwork · 199 points · 1 year ago
Agreed on assay changes. A lab switching platforms between your draws is invisible unless you ask.
comment on reading lipids threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/bloodwork · 50 points · 1 year ago
Identifying header cropped from the report above. Post the values, not the name and reference number.
comment on reading private plan threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly in c/glp1canada · 17 points · 1 year ago
Was this a denied authorization or a rejected claim?
comment on [Discussion] can we stop arguing about baseline labs until somebody posts a number in c/bloodwork · 181 points · 1 year ago
Left up. It is a question about how to compare panels, not a request for interpretation.
comment on is it normal to get muscle cramps at week 90 in c/bloodwork · 24 points · 1 year ago
Left up. It is a question about how to compare panels, not a request for interpretation.
comment on [Discussion] we are measuring T2D at the wrong time and calling it noise in c/t2dglp1 · 19 points · 1 year ago
Left up. It distinguishes the sensor data from the lab result, which most posts here do not.