Your package
Rs. 11,400
Brain Fog & Focus Check
+ General Physician consultation
Where should we come?
Home collection is available in Lahore only.
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Before your visit
- No fasting. Eat and drink normally before the sample.
- If you take B12 in any form, this is the most important line on this page. An injection, tablet or syrup, or a multivitamin containing B12, lifts the blood level for weeks to months and can make a real deficiency read as perfectly normal. Tell the doctor exactly what you take and when you last took it. If you have had injections, ask before booking, because the sensible plan is usually to test before the next course rather than after one.
- Stop biotin supplements 48 to 72 hours before. Biotin sits in almost every hair, skin and nail supplement, and it interferes with the laboratory method used for thyroid and B12 testing. It is the commonest reason a thyroid result comes back looking alarming when nothing is wrong.
- If you already take a thyroid tablet, take it after the sample rather than before. Levothyroxine swallowed an hour before the draw raises the free T4 reading and makes the dose look bigger than it is. Do not skip the dose, just delay it.
- Postpone if you are unwell. Ferritin rises during any infection or fever, so a result taken while you are ill can look normal when your stores are actually empty.
- Tell the doctor about every supplement and medicine you take, including metformin, acid reducing tablets such as omeprazole, and any iron or multivitamin.
- Mention if you are pregnant or trying to conceive, since thyroid reference ranges are different in pregnancy and the threshold for treating is lower.
- Have your sleep pattern ready for the consultation: how many hours, how broken, whether you snore, and when you last woke up feeling properly rested. It matters as much as the numbers do, and the doctor will ask.
- Not for under 18s.
- Homocysteine takes longer than the rest. The other five are usually ready the same day and homocysteine can follow within 24 to 48 hours, so book the consultation for once the full report is in.
Rs. 11,400
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