TrialNerd_Beth said:

PSA: get baseline labs BEFORE starting baseline bloodwork therapy.

Same experience, arrived at from the opposite direction. The detail I would add is minor and it is already implied above.

kate.chem said:

Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look.

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. It helps to ask what evidence would change your mind before you look at any. If nothing would, the discussion is not about evidence, and it is better to say so early than to spend nine posts discovering it.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Worth stating the units and the reference range whenever you post a number here. A large fraction of the apparent disagreement in these threads is two people using different units and both being right.

One thing that is still open after kate.chem’s answer:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

Moderator note: good thread. Keeping it here rather than moving it, because the question is general enough to be useful. No action needed from anybody.