September 9, 2019 [Email sent to Dr. Prabaharan on 9/3/19] I got a message from your office letting me know that I need to come to the lab for my 6-month A1C test. Which I will do. I would like to know if you could order a TSH (or T3,T4) as I am having symptoms…
Category: TSH
Lab Tests Again
Thursday, December 6, 2018 After my acupuncture appointment today, we drove directly to the San Leandro Kaiser where I got two lab tests: one for TSH which Dr. Prabaharan had ordered three months ago to be done on December 6, and the other one the c-peptide test that I had requested. As I pulled out…
Routine Lab Work
August 31, 2018 It was a lazy morning at home, with no particular rush to get to the Kaiser Laboratory, except that I couldn’t eat anything or drink coffee because I had to have a fasting blood draw for the lipid panel. As I waited, I absentmindedly watched the digital screen that displayed various Kaiser…
Appointment with New PCP
August 23, 2018, 2:45 p.m. I liked it that my appointment with my new PCP was only 2 miles away from home (instead of 10+ miles to Alameda). I did not like it that there is no wi-fi or cell phone coverage inside the Kaiser building. I checked in a half hour early, anticipating that…
Is This Progress?
Today I got an email from a doctor in Dr. Chan’s office (who wrote to me in her absence) the following: “I’m Dr. Douk, covering for Dr. Chan while she is out. Your thyroid test showed that your levothyroxine dose might be a little high for you now. I have reordered a new lower dose…