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Fasting sample
Avoid taking milk and fatty foods
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Connect please
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Fasting preferably
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Perhaps, total T4 and T3 were done yesterday.Doctor has asked for free T4 and T3 and It's free form of T3 and T4 are important to measure.The blood sample is extracted in fasting .
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Usually there is no special precautions including fasting need to be followed before taking these tests.
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you can give sample of these tests without fasting
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Dr. Manoj Kumar
General Physician
7 yrs exp
Dehradun
Need few details
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Dr. Aditya Prasad Padhy
Urologist
11 yrs exp
Bhubaneswar
Better do in empty stomach
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Dr. Jeevan Kumar
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6 yrs exp
Karimnagar
It’s better to give fasting sample .
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Dr. Magdum Bathusha
General Physician
10 yrs exp
Chennai
Tsh only impact on fasting
But ft3 ft4 does not
But you are in pregnancy so compare with previous reports better to take fasting
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