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Fasting Blood Tests
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Further to my post below RE: fatigue
Rang GP today and triage rang me back. Got an appointment next Monday to see a doctor. In the meantime have had to go to the surgery to collect a form to take for blood tests. The form states that its a 10 hour fast before bloods are taken. The triage that rang me said that they would just be routine bloods as a first port of call. Ive had many 'routine' bloods done before but never a fasting one so why this time?
Since when has a routine blood sample been a fasting one? Any ideas?
Thanks.
Rang GP today and triage rang me back. Got an appointment next Monday to see a doctor. In the meantime have had to go to the surgery to collect a form to take for blood tests. The form states that its a 10 hour fast before bloods are taken. The triage that rang me said that they would just be routine bloods as a first port of call. Ive had many 'routine' bloods done before but never a fasting one so why this time?
Since when has a routine blood sample been a fasting one? Any ideas?
Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It probably depends upon what the tests are looking for. If you're only having a blood test (for example) to look for the presence of a virus (or of antibodies to that virus) it might not make any difference as to whether you've recently eaten or not.
However if the test is to include (for example) the possibility of Type 2 diabetes, then an FPG (fasting plasma glucose) test is far better than a simple RPG (random plasma glucose) one.
However if the test is to include (for example) the possibility of Type 2 diabetes, then an FPG (fasting plasma glucose) test is far better than a simple RPG (random plasma glucose) one.
Thanks guys. Just reread the 'request' bit. It does say fasting glucose, missed that. Nothing about iron though which I would have thought to be the first thing to test for.
Just that when I spoke to triage he said that it was a routine blood test.
On the 'clinical data' bit he has written ''tired all the time, history of alcohol abuse''
Makes me sound like a worn out wino :-(
(I'm not)
Just that when I spoke to triage he said that it was a routine blood test.
On the 'clinical data' bit he has written ''tired all the time, history of alcohol abuse''
Makes me sound like a worn out wino :-(
(I'm not)
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