Educational only; not medical advice
Symptom guides start from a complaint, not a marker. They explain the usual first-line tests, what those results can show, and what bloodwork cannot explain.
Part of the Hemexa guides. Educational only; not medical advice.
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Tired all the time in Australia: the first-line GP tests, how to read ferritin, TSH, B12, vitamin D and HbA1c, what Medicare covers, and what blood cannot explain.
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Hair loss and thinning hair in Australia: when GPs order ferritin, TSH and androgens, how to read the report, what Medicare covers, and what blood cannot diagnose.
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High cholesterol in Australia: how to read a GP lipid printout in mmol/L, why a lab flag is not a treatment order, when ApoB and Lp(a) add something, and what blood cannot show.
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PCOS blood tests in Australia: 2023 diagnostic criteria, when you do not need an ultrasound, how to read testosterone, SHBG and AMH, and what blood cannot diagnose.
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Perimenopause blood tests in Australia: why diagnosis is clinical, why a single FSH or oestradiol result is not diagnostic over 45, and which tests still matter.
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Prediabetes and high blood sugar in Australia: how to read HbA1c in mmol/mol and fasting glucose in mmol/L, the 6.1 and 42 mmol/mol cut-offs, what Medicare covers, and what blood cannot show.
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Insulin resistance symptoms in Australia: why it is not a diagnosis, how to read fasting insulin and HOMA-IR, what Medicare item 66695 covers, and why HbA1c can still look normal.
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Fatty liver blood tests in Australia: why ALT cannot diagnose it, how MAFLD and MASLD differ, how to read an Australian liver printout, what FIB-4 is for, and what Medicare item 66512 covers.
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Low testosterone symptoms in Australia: why they are not a diagnosis, how to read total testosterone in nmol/L with SHBG and LH, why the draw is 8 am to 10 am, and what Medicare item 66695 covers.
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Brain fog blood tests in Australia: why it is a description not a diagnosis, the RACGP first-line set, how to read B12, TSH and ferritin, what Medicare covers, and what blood cannot explain.
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