Do we really need blood work?
What if HRT gets banned?
One comment mentions bloodwork. So I have a health site and have gone the alternative medicine route for years while planet Earth shits all over me and calls me a loon. One reason I'm supposedly a loon is the lack of standard medical test results "proving" stuff according to their mental models.
But what I DO have is fingernails. Pics or it didn't happen:So I'm WONDERING if it would be FEASIBLE to develop alternate metrics for tracking HRT, ones not requiring blood draws. (There are apps that supposedly use your phone's camera to check blood for stuff. New app anyone?)
One comment mentions bloodwork. So I have a health site and have gone the alternative medicine route for years while planet Earth shits all over me and calls me a loon. One reason I'm supposedly a loon is the lack of standard medical test results "proving" stuff according to their mental models.
For The Record: I do NOT know my alleles, which is one of the reasons I left all the CF lists years ago. In CF-land, knowing your mutations is essential street cred for being taken seriously as someone who REALLY has CF.I also have been asked for NUMBERS for various things and don't have them and couldn't engage effectively with the question, making me look stupid and like I'm telling tall tales.
But what I DO have is fingernails. Pics or it didn't happen:So I'm WONDERING if it would be FEASIBLE to develop alternate metrics for tracking HRT, ones not requiring blood draws. (There are apps that supposedly use your phone's camera to check blood for stuff. New app anyone?)
Footnote
Originally published elsewhere probably on 04/19/2025.