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[JENESSA MCKRAY]

Do you need to labs prior to starting peptides? If so what labs do you do and how often?

 

Thanks,
Jenessa McKray

[Kristelle Reyes]

Hello @byurthgmail-com, @andkeller2gmail-com, and @drhusaininterlinkedmd-com, we would love to have your insights here. Thank you! 🙂

[Denise Burroughs]

Specifically for Ipam/CJC, we check an IGF-1.  For all peptides, we have a basic panel of labs we check before starting anyone on anything.  Not sure if you’re wanting labs specific to peptides? Or wanting the basic panel we check?

[Cyndee Combs]

Hello, new to forum, can you give us a list of the labs that we should routinely order for new patient that are being started on peptides?

[Cynthia Keller]

It is hard to know how to answer this question since peptides aren’t “one thing”, right?

It is a large group of signaling  agents which include everything from insulin, to TA1 (and a lot in between). These all have very different functions, actions, and indications, etc.

As such, labs for one indication (insulin for DM e.g.) would be very different from another one (TA1 for Lupus for example).

My advice is, if you are new to this amazing group of treatment options… that you pick one peptide at a time to get to know.
Read about indications, dosing, side effects, contraindications, expected results, and labs to be followed.
Then try it out, and learn from using it.

 

And then, pick another one… and do the same.

 

For me, the above plan was the best way to successfully (and safely) start using peptides.

And, as you do the above… it will be much easier for those of us who have already “played with” the peptide you are working on to answer questions that you might have, or help you avoid the pit falls that we might have learned from.

Warmly,

 

Cynthia

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