Have a look here - link is specifically to the amylase page but the site has information about many other tests:
What is being tested?
Amylase is an enzyme made mainly by the pancreas. It is released from the pancreas into the digestive tract to help digest starch in our food. It is usually present in the blood in small quantities. When cells in the pancreas are injured or if the pancreatic duct is blocked (by a gallstone or rarely by a tumour) increased amounts of amylase find their way into the bloodstream.
Thank you x i researched and my amylase is from salivary glands - that what they told me as I had been vomiting almost everyday a lot with the virus and neausea. I will ask for lipase to be checked with GP
What I find perplexing the LDL has jumped up from 3 to 3.5 in a month and yes I have had fat like butter etc but inread low oestrogen and low thyroid and raise cholesterol?
Most of us don't get tested for LDL. I don't have any feel for how it changes over time. It could be pretty insignificant. And there are many blood tests where the same test, done by the same lab, even sometimes on the same actual blood draw, will vary by that sort of amount.
Thank you. The thing is my ast and Ggt were never high and this time high - alt has been high but not this high and I haven’t increased fluoxetine etc . Thank you for this
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