Understanding your CMP — need advice

Dr.RenalNash said:

The single most useful discipline is bringing the whole panel to a clinician rather than one flagged value.

Pushing back on Dr.RenalNash here. 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.

Happy to go further on any of that.

KevinCompounds said:

I got a full panel before starting and a repeat at three months, and the second one is more useful than the first purely because I now have something…

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

FDA_TrackerJim said:

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

Shot day Monday report relevant to baseline bloodwork:

Week 43. Currently on 5mg. Down 29 lbs from starting weight of 241 lbs.

This week's observations: Appetite very well controlled, no cravings.

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

One thing that is still open after tampaLisa73’s answer:

What actually belongs on a baseline panel, as opposed to the enormous list that gets pasted around here?

Closing the loop on my own question.

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