A good blood test...and a question

[Miranda]

Congrats on your results and the improved scores. Exercise, weight loss, diet, etc. can all help the things that got better. The liver, hmm dunno. Interesting, sure the doc keeps an eye on that stuff specific to you. Things mentioned can certainly impact that.

Yes... not fasting can elevate the triglycerides, and effect the results.

If we had a pa show up non-fasting, we'd either not draw, or call the doc... or draw and hold the specimen and call the doc before running the test (with the understanding to the pa that they may end up getting stuck a second time for re-call). The tech should have noted non-fasting when you told her that.

Normally fasting is the standard prep, but if not, then the med tech would footnote that while running and resulting the specimen. Thus, the doc could see what potentially influenced the result if high, and go from there.

DH tris were SO high. He has lots of lifestyle and genetics things that affect it. We went on the South Beach diet as a result of the tris. Well... "I" follow the general priciples cuz they make a lot of sense anyway to me. The other half is another tale...