#liver blood tests

[diagnoblr]

Liver disease can develop for various reasons, and certain risk factors increase the possibility of liver damage or illness. If you have one or more of these risk factors, it is imperative to consider getting tested for liver disease to perceive and address any potential problems early.

[witchstone]

the good news is that we can rule out cancer for ava

[twisted-tales-told]

Hello everyone

I know a lot of ppl on this blog love Pepper (my cat) so I thought I’d just give yall a little update that she’s had some health issues recently & she’s having surgery in the morning (just to remove a chipped tooth!!). She’s going to be fine but I thought I’d let yall know!

Anyways if yall wanna distract me tomorrow because I’ll be hella emotional that would be v nice

[transgaysex]

my endocrinologist reduced my T dose because im Too Good at making More on my Own

[reitziluz]

this september has been absolutely cursed so far. back to back misfortunes and setbacks.

the funniest one (or well, the one i can't help but laugh about) is how my new doc at the health center was gravely worried over my hemoglobin count. surely it is a sign my hrt dose is too high and all my organs are going to melt!

i have just recently graduated from the trans hrt specialty clinic after a long time of monitoring my hemoglobin and figuring out a dose that actually keeps me just above the lower threshold of the clinical range i'm aiming for. they figured my blood is just Like That as a genetic thing. the only time in my life i've had a hemoglobin count within the reference ranges is the few years when i ate mostly vegan and donated blood regularly. i was told by a school nurse at fifteen that i should donate blood when i turn 18 because my blood is so thick.

like it's p likely i was a bit dehydrated during that latest blood draw too. the doc needs to chill. there were much more worrying things in the results than the hemoglobin. stuff that's the actual reason i went to get the tests done.

but my blood being thick and rich like a luxurious vampire delicacy never fails to make me laugh

[sometimesraven]

the way they keep checking my thyroid and yet looking at my blood test results my thyroid is like the *only* part that's functioning perfectly fine

[orcelito]

Honestly sooooooo fucked up that I thought my overwhelming daily fatigue and debilitating body pain was a product of the awful working conditions I was under for years and years... and yet, despite being out of work for half a year now, I'm still so fatigued and in pain all the time??? Like come on man that's not fair

Oh well maybe I have liver disease and they'll treat it and then I am magically so much more energized like I was as a kid. We can only hope !!!!

[mysterypigeon]

being so brave and sitting so normal in the laboratory today

[woundedheartwithin]

The weenie dog’s okay, btw. He was diagnosed with Old, so now he takes a liver support supplement

[gameclam4]

Broooo they must have been on blood draw where they took 15 vials of blood when they made this 😂😂😂😂😂

[meatheadmutt]

My cat is dying

[bitchfitch]

few days ago I offhandedly mentioned having my medical disasters show up in a handful of specialty text books, but hindsight is 20/20 and one of those is Extremely funny.

Tldr my rheumatologist penned a chapter in a textbook with a name that could not fit in a tweet, in which he used my 'strange' case of fibromyalgia to show the variability of the condition in children. Or at least that what my mother said it said. I was like 10 and also blind, and so did not read that particular work myself.

The funny thing is that despite him diagnosing me with the condition the second time I saw him after juvenile arthritis was ruled out via bloodtest, I never had fibromyalgia.

He misdiagnosed me and missed the again, in hindsight, extremely obvious case of EDS. He was the one who originally noted I was bizarrely flexible and that it was strange that my wide spread debilitating pain Wasn't localized to my joints, as it normally is in both Fibromyalgia and Juvenile Arthritis. It also came with my retinas continuing to try to fall off, and frequent bouts of internal bleeding. He was also the one to prescribe physical therapy to treat the fact my legs bent wrong and could barely walk because of it. But nah, surely that was unrelated to the pain thing. Fibromyalgia. Slap it in a textbook and call it a day. Come back in a month for another fucking blood test.

[normal-with-adhd-is-a-joke]

I love this particular ADHD medicine I'm on bc I'm actually able to be somewhat creative on it. Haven't been able to write in ages because I'm too unfocused but it's definitely been helping. Apparently, some studies found it was more effective for complex tasks, while other ADHD meds were found to be more effective for simple tasks, and I definitely find that's true for me. It's also a narcolepsy medication so on top of the ADHD it's been helping some with general fatigue from CFS

[piierrote]

omg bc i did my blood tests recently i get to find out wether my mild untreated jaundice has worsened!!! exciting times

[floatingwithlaura]

taking a concoction of pain meds and psych meds and bc to try and feel like a normal human being is getting tiring