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Me again... :D I had cortisol tested recently but endo wants to rerun the test. I've got the kit here ready to use and have been given times to do the collections of 8am/12pm/4pm/10pm.

I'm going to disregard the 8am one and do it within half hour of waking.

But for my previous test I did collections at 6:45am/12pm/5pm/9pm

Should I stick to the times given or do the same as previously for comparison?

Results are given as waking/noon/evening/night so maybe I'm overthinking this? πŸ˜‚

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I’d stick to same as before to get as close a comparison as poss x

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I'd do it like last time... just not posting it on a Friday πŸ™„πŸ˜…

So if you do it tomorrow bung it in the freezer till Monday πŸ€—

Oh, and remember all the rules, no caffeine, food within an hour.....

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Well, I did all that but ended up having a migraine and a 90 minute nap so heaven knows what that will do to my results. πŸ€ͺ

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Oh bummer πŸ˜’ That'll be interesting to compare though 😏

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Wouldn't mind if it hadn't cost me the best part of Β£100 πŸ€ͺ

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An investment in you πŸ€— onwards and upwards

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Less so now the results are skewed πŸ˜‚

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All a valuable insight... how often do you have a non skewed day? 😏

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Well, I never nap! And it's been about 6 weeks since my last migraine. πŸ˜‚

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You could wash the tubes out and do it again another day πŸ€—

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Test from a different company; they're cotton swab things that you have to hold in your mouth until they're soaked! πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

Let's see what happens when I get the results. 😁

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