The dudes rattle off tests they ask their docs to run that are beyond standard blood panels , like the one that differentiates between fluffy and dense cholesterol. Does anyone have a cheat sheet they have to hand to their doc?
Blood Panel to ask for at annual physical
Rajseth
(Raj Seth)
#2
NMR lipid panel, fasting insulin, A1C, HsCRP - inaddition to the normal panels they run
This is what I sent
“I have a blood draw scheduled for Aug 30, for my annual checkup 9/4. Since I am no longer seeing my endocrinologist Dr. XXX, would you please include the following:HbA1c, fasting Insulin and blood glucose, and HSCRP
I presume you will do the usual lipids, bmp etc.”
I had a recent NMR, and I no longer care about cholesterol, so I did not request it.
Robert_Johnson
(Consensus is Politics)
#3
Thanks, you saved me from starting a thread for the very same thing.
I just had a follow up with my Endocrinologist this week. My HBa1c was 11.8% last Aug. This week its down to 5.7%. A bit bummed thats only down .1% since Jan this year. Que será, será.
But I was really disappointed in the blood panel. All of my previous panels had dozens of data points. Things I never heard of, nor have figured out. Information overload. Two pages or so long. But then fir this week I get this…
CHOLESTEROL 216 mg/dL
TRIGLYCERIDE 127 mg/dL
HDL 59 mg/dL >40
LDL 142 mg/dL
VLDL 25 mg/dL 0-30
THATS IT?!? You got to be kidding me. 
I really want to know how my electrolytes are doing. 
Keto Vita! 