‘Normal’ Isn’t Always Normal: What Your Lab Numbers Actually Mean‘Normal’ Isn’t Always Normal: What Your Lab Numbers Actually Mean
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‘Normal’ Isn’t Always Normal: What Your Lab Numbers Actually Mean

If you know something’s wrong with your health, but your doctor says your labs are fine, you may both be right—and that’s the problem.
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At 26, Dani Homer could barely get through a day. She slept through weekends, ate little, and felt as if her limbs were made of lead. Yet every doctor she saw told her that she was fine.

“I must have heard my labs were normal a couple dozen times,” she said.