My bloodwork is SO much better - showing my doctor was worth it — my results so far

Dr.SleepRoch said:

Quarterly for the first year is convention rather than evidence, and it is defensible for a simple reason: it is roughly the interval over which HbA1c…

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. I would drop the "get everything" instinct further than this thread does. Every extra test is another chance at a false positive, and incidental findings have their own cost in scans, biopsies and worry.

traveltech_sara said:

My prescriber ordered three tests and this board recommends about twenty, and I would like to know which of those two lists is right.

Blood work came back perfect. baseline bloodwork + this community = winning. 🏆

MikeFit_NJ said:

I would drop the "get everything" instinct further than this thread does.

Shot day Friday report relevant to baseline bloodwork:

Week 22. Currently on 0.5mg. Down 18 lbs from starting weight of 230 lbs.

This week's observations: Slight injection site redness, resolved in 24h.

Labs due next week — looking forward to seeing the metabolic panel. I'll post results in the Lab Results section when they come in.

Following on from NeuroNate — and this may be the naive question:

How often to repeat it, because quarterly seems to be the convention and I cannot find the reasoning?

Reporting back.

Took the whole panel in rather than the one flagged line, and the conversation lasted two minutes instead of generating three more tests.