A result that was a laboratory error

My honest experience is that most of mine have been unremarkable and that the unremarkable ones are worth keeping too.

Somebody in this circle explained the difference between two of my figures in four sentences after two years of me not asking.

The thing that helped most was having a second set six months later, because one set is a snapshot and two is a direction.

The question I ask now is what the clinician would want to see next time, and it makes the following six months much clearer.

What I got wrong was interpreting a result myself and worrying for a fortnight before an appointment that took two minutes to reassure me.

I found that a lot of what worried me was seasonal or explained by something ordinary, and having a series made that obvious.

Bring the printout. Half of what I understand about my own results came from somebody in this circle reading them alongside me.

Coming back after my annual set to say everything was unremarkable, and leaving that here because the boring results deserve a post too.

My GP was happy to go through mine line by line when I asked, and I had assumed for years that this was not something you could ask for.

That is a very clear way of putting something I have never been able to put clearly.

Something practical: I write the date and the range next to every figure, because a number without its range is not information.