When I made my appointment for my annual physical exam with my doctor (which for me is more like a quadrennial exam) I requested that I have my lab work done in advance. It has never occurred to me to do this before. I usually go and my doctor gives me a referral to the lab and then I never go. It works out pretty well for me that way. This year though, I thought it would be a good idea to find out in advance of seeing my doctor if anything is wrong with me. This way, if there were anything wrong, I could talk to him about it when I see him.
I highly suggest that everyone start doing this. Maybe you already do, but most people I know report that they have been seeing their doctor first and then referred to the lab. Well, all of my lab results came to me in the mail and from what I could tell (which wasn’t much) I have GREAT results. Everything was in the normal range. I don’t think they really tell you if you have awesome results. I think your choices are normal and high. Well, normal isn’t good enough for me. Call me an overachiever or just sadly in need of external validation but I wanted to find out that my lab results were better than most others. Since I have no one to compare myself to I went online to try and find out how great my scores actually are only to find out there is a whole body of literature that suggests that cholesterol levels are over rated and that there is a cholesterol debate. What can you tell me about this?
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