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Fasting bloods when you are nocturnal

Started 3 April 2026 · 12 replies · 74 hearts · read 1.1k times

RenataKraków, PL · 3 April 2026
4 months ago

Something I have been sitting with: Fasting bloods when you are nocturnal Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Practical question, and possibly a silly one.

I have read the guides here, which were more useful than anything else I have found, and I still have a question they do not cover.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

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NolwennRennes, FR
#1

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

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YannickBrussels, BE
#2

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

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OdileMontreal, CA
#3

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

8me too 8

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

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AshSunderland, UK
#5

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

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LulaBournemouth, UK
#6

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

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NorahDerry, NI
#7

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

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HuwWrexham, UK
#8

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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KezWigan, UK
#9

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

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MattNottingham, UK
#10

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

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Thank you for writing this. I am not going to add information to it. I am going to say that what you have described is very common and very rarely said out loud.

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SunnivaBodø, NO
#12

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

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