“Your lab results are now available.”
It’s a notification that sparks equal parts curiosity and confusion. You click the link, ready to decode your bloodwork results, only to face a wall of medical jargon and numbers that feel more cryptic than clarifying.Where do you start? And what should you keep in mind while you wait to hear from your provider?
Don’t worry if you’re not in the green.
Often, bloodwork results come back coded green, yellow or red. Green means you’re in the typical “normal” range. Yellow or red, not so much.
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But remember this: Everyone’s got their own normal. So if you see yellow or red, stay calm.“Do not jump straight to Google or worry!” says Raashi Khanna, DO, an internal medicine expert for Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Primary Care. “Even when values are out of ‘normal’ range on a blood test, they can still be considered normal based on each provider’s practice and purpose for ordering that particular test.” Read more
