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Building a sensible monitoring schedule with your prescriber

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s.grimaldiTL217 Dec 2024#1

Building a sensible monitoring schedule with your prescriber — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.

Building a sensible monitoring schedule — I have the observation and I do not trust my interpretation of it, so I am posting the observation and holding the interpretation back.

Numbers, method and the conditions under which they were collected are below. Interpret them however they warrant.

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b.kowalskiTL218 Dec 2024#11

Taking building a sensible monitoring schedule seriously for a moment rather than deflecting: the honest position is that the community has observations and no controlled comparison, and those two things support very different sentences.

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ma.nascimentoTL219 Dec 2024#25

Time of day: some biomarkers vary across the day. Cortisol in the morning differs from cortisol in the evening. Comparing results from different times of day is comparing things that are not the same.

Caveat: everything above assumes the paperwork is what it says it is.

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v.krastevTL220 Dec 2024#48

dietitian_hollis, post #14: That reframing is the whole thing. The facts I already had. Go to post

Confirming post #45 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.

A trend needs at least three points to be a trend. Two points are a line and a line through noise is still a line.

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HadjipaterasTL1Member20 Dec 2024#56

buffer_margin, post #44: Time of day: some biomarkers vary across the day. Cortisol in the morning differs from cortisol in the evening. Comparing results from different times of day is comparing things that are not the same. I would put this at better than even and not much better. Go to post

If anyone can point at the primary source I would be grateful.

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j.steinerTL222 Dec 2024#86

Repeat before acting is standard practice for an isolated abnormal result on most analytes, and it is standard for a reason.

I checked the source rather than the summary, and they differ.

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owen.bradyTL4 Moderator22 Dec 2024#98

j.erdogan, post #76: Building a sensible monitoring schedule is well covered in the tag pages, and the older discussions are better than the recent ones because they were argued out properly. Worth twenty minutes before adding to this one. Go to post

Everything in post #94 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.

What I would tell a new member reading about building a sensible monitoring schedule for the first time: the confident posts are not the reliable ones, and the reliable ones are longer.

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cannula_driftTL3Regular22 Dec 2024 · edited#99

peak_purity, post #31: Confirming post #30 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person. For anyone finding this later: the short answer on building a sensible monitoring schedule is that it depends on one thing, and the rest of the thread is people identifying which thing. Go to post

Confirming post #96 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.

Glycaemic markers integrate over different periods. A point glucose and a longer-term marker disagreeing is not a contradiction; it is two different questions.

Not a conclusion. A place to stand while looking for one.

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FairweatherTL2Member23 Dec 2024#103

On building a sensible monitoring schedule the community has more anecdote than the confidence in this thread implies, and I include my own contribution in that.

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