Hey all, figured this may help a few of you and even if it helps one, maybe it's worth my time to write. Had a physical on 6/30 which I knew was coming for months. The physical part doesn't really worry me too much but doing the blood work is where I get paralyzed. Having 2 docs (PCP and GI) the blood work took 5 vials to complete. All came back shockingly within range except for a slight increase on my Celiac antibodies (not a huge deal) but my Triglycerides were way up (probably due to alcohol and self medicating) to around 330 while all other Cholesterol was pretty normal. I just had my glucose tested in March and it was around 103 and I also put on about 20 pounds in the last year. I checked diabetes and was told it would be tough to become diabetic in that short of time.
I guess what I'm saying is the following. I waited and waited to get my blood work done until everything (I thought) would be "perfect". I'm told that blood doesn't really work that way but was told the following which was surprising. I spoke to an MD friend of mine and he said the following, "did you have anything fattening the night before like ice cream or chips, etc. and I said I did have a bag of potato chips. He said, "there you go". That can spike it pretty quickly.
Just wanted to take a minute to make a "happy" post on Sunday.
I guess what I'm saying is the following. I waited and waited to get my blood work done until everything (I thought) would be "perfect". I'm told that blood doesn't really work that way but was told the following which was surprising. I spoke to an MD friend of mine and he said the following, "did you have anything fattening the night before like ice cream or chips, etc. and I said I did have a bag of potato chips. He said, "there you go". That can spike it pretty quickly.
Just wanted to take a minute to make a "happy" post on Sunday.