well, tried to check with few clinics and so far the cheapest i can find is around Rm150 for full body checkup.
most expensive would be rm200 for the results going to be sent to Australia lab to test it.

well, am planning to look for University hospital since i can get the anti-hepatitis B injection for free but have no idea which department to go. went there once and nearly get lost and so hard to find parking.

so guys, do share wit me if u know any cheaper place to go for full blood test yea.

thx.

hmm.. full body check up for only RM150???
perhaps its not a full body check up..
usually body check up will cost you 1k like that..

Full blood test? Why would u want one. This kind of tests are normally not routinely done in healthy adults. Not much medical value, and as u can see are quite ex.

Full blood test (including HIV) costed around RM180 at clinic (which the blood sample would be sent to Pathlab). If you go directly to Pathlab for the similar package, if will cost around RM300 plus. The package I said doesn't include Hepatitis C test, which is quite expensive (around RM70). I think if you go for blood donation at private hospital, probably the hospital will give you discount or free blood test. If you donate blood at garment, you will give some info about your blood FREE.

It depends on what kinda test you wanna do because there are different packages for the full blood tests done. Like what onemilimeter had said, some comes with HIV, some without Hep.C, etc.
Blood testing range is wide. you can get your blood tested for the blood cells, or for the chemical components,for your immune system, etc All comes in different price list.

How much does Thalassemia test cost at Pathlab or clinic?

well which hospital will accept blood donation then? last i chk with damansara specialist, they dont. the RM200 that i mentioned, it includes HIV, chrolestral level, high/low blood pressure, kidney, hepatitis and few basic test. so does it mean it's good deal? i stil find a bit expansive.

main reason to check out the blood is to have a anti hepatitis B injection. do you guys know we need to take an anti-hepatitis b injection when we are adults? the one that we took in our school times, might be gone in our blood alridi.

hehe like what i mentioned in above response. any good place/clinic to recommend?

private hospitals do not give discount over blood donated by you.
national blood bank, only if you have donated few times then there are free tests.
so you want to get your blood tested for hepatitis B? whether you are free from it or a carrier?
then just request for hepatitis B testing. it wont cost that much if its only involving 1 test.
and for hep.B injection, its not a must to take it when you are adults. just that, on the safer side, better to be safe and sorry, you go get it., especially if you have "healthy" life style or you are working in the healthcare industry, particularly in the hospitals.

ive got myself jab for 3 times. but no antibodies is produced. how sad...

wow...serious? jab 3 times and stil no anti?
well i'm quite a frequent blood donator and i think shuld be free of these la...
jst tat have to make sure before taking those anti hep b jab...

thx for sharing lovemenot

Remember to check Hepatitis C too...

well i did my full check up.. blood test.. ermm.. covers general stuff.. like red blood cell count , HIV , STDs, liver bla bla .. standard ones.. for like 130 Through Gribbles..in a clinic in subang.. It's pretty good. Presentation of data and specific tests shown. Try and enquire
www.gribbles.com.my

hi, my advice is that, if u want to screen for Hep B, C, HIV, or any blood transmitted disease, just go ahead for a blood donation. if you're clean, and you wont be notified. save your money.
and if you're going to do a liver function test, renal function test or full blood count...unless you really at risk of having such disease, there's really no point of doing it because the markers often shows normal values. and even if there's abnormal value, you'll still need a doctor to interpret the result for you so you wont misinterpret it yourself.

many people was like "wow" when they see their own reports, fascinated by the values and tests done on their blood. but the facts is that these test are only required to investigate a patient with some signs and symptoms of certain disease just to confirm a diagnosis instead of using these blood tests as a screening tools to screen for disease.

My opinion is we should do AT LEAST once FULL blood test. Those who're overweight or obese (especially women) should do Lipid Profile Test (LPT) and Liver Function Test (LFT). Sometimes we might think that our current lifestlye is OK. If LPT and LFT are abnormal, then we need to adjust our lifestyle before TOO LATE.

lipid profile is suggested for those high risk person( hypertension, obesity, strong family history of stroke and dyslipidaemia, diabetes melitus)
however, liver function test is harder to define...the rise of one value sometimes doesn't implicate anything...only when the whole readings is significant rise, then you can suspect something wrong with your liver...

there's a few case where some people see abnormal values in their test, thus rushing to clinic for help...and ended up going through more complex diagnostic test which requires a lot of expenses...
and the final diagnosis is normal...

that's one of the strategy how our private laboratories earns consumers' money...by giving them packages of blood test without telling them the cause of the abnormalities, and also the solution to the problems...

note: don't ever waste your money on cancer screening because it's not diagnostic and specific for normal human body.
Tumour marker is most useful in monitoring treatment effectiveness and also use to screen for relapse for post operative and chemo patients.

Ive come across many cases in which the patients is like a bag of bones but when lipid profile testing was done, the cholesterol level is even higher than those obese patients. So its not only meant for obese people or those with family history. but everyone should get check at least once as our blood can give out alot of clues regarding our health status.

As for klifex, in my opinion, if you do have family background of cancers, when you have reach a certain age and if there are risk factors that may contribute to the mutation of the cells within our body, tumour marker may help a little. As when something goes wrong with any organs in our body, the amount of cancer marker would certainly be higher if it were to compare with a normal healthy people. it is not nessecary only for prognosis purposes. but like what you have mentioned, those lab testing packages offers by private labs or even in the hospital, some of the tests are unnessecary. It would be better if you do have some knowledge regarding the importance of each test done and how it is connected to your health status. e.g. if you have never been exposed to any sexual transmitted disease, whats the point of doing STDs testing?

This post has been edited by LoveMeNot: Jan 11 2008, 07:37 PM

Just to clarify some of the issues

Hep B vaccination is not effective in approximately 5% of people. Hence one should do a test to see if they were able to mount immunity after their last inj. Usually a further one injection is given. If no immunity is present after that you don't need to waste money. Hep B is transmitted via blood and blood products, sexs and sharing of needles. If you fall in the 5% category who wont develop the immunity even after the vaccination (and even if you don't) practising a healthy and safe lifestyle should be adequate to protect you.

It is however safer to get yourself vaccinated as you never know when accidents can happen.

As for tumour markes, you are right that the pick up rate is extremely low. It is not really necessary unless you don't mind the additional cost. When it is negative, it may be false negative. Sometimes you can also get false positive. It may be done for follow up patients and even than as a compliment to other more accurate tests.

It would be good to do an annual health screening and the most important things you should do is your blood counts, Liver function test, renal function, lipid profile, Blood sugar, thyroid function, Urine examination. You can do your hep b antigen& antibody yearly as the antibody levels tend to drop after 5 yrs. excluding the tumour markers this should cost less than RM100.00

When you donate blood, your blood will be tested for all infective diseases. You will be notified and treated if there are any positive findings. Otherwise no one will contact you.

Most blood tests in laboratories are done in Malaysia. There are very few tests that needs to be done in Australia. These are special diagnostic tests and they are not necessary to be done routinely. Please don't be conned by anyone who claims that your blood is sent overseas for routine tests.

Hyperlipidaemia ( high cholesterol, triglyceride etc) are not necessarily found in obese people. In fact you can find complete vegetarians having it. Most cholesterol in your body is produced by your liver. It is recommended that anyone aged above 25 is tested yearly. In familial hyperlipidaemia, who are at higher risk you can find hyperlipidaemia as early as 20years of age.

Pantai Premier Pathology lab.... RM90 full blood check last year end promotion now dunno what price

, any abnormal value, u can consult me also ...hhahaha....

Usually the 'clinic' doctor will not ask you to go for advanced tests if your first LFT shows abnormal values. The doctor will ask you to change your lifestyle and go for another LFT in 3~6 months. If the abnormal values persist, then you will be advised to for further diagnosis, e.g. ultrasound scan. Usually liver biopsy is the last option as it's expensive.

i jst chk their website. it's an ongoing promotion. rm90 is a good deal to me.
http://www.premierpathology.com.my/

hehe, u part time pharmacist ah? know so much huh?

jst something to share with you all.

i went to pusat darah negara today to donate blood. basically they will test for hepatitis, HIV, malaria and one more STD sickness called silitris or something like that. so if you are tested positive, they will sent you a letter to your registered address in 2 months time. well, in a way free blood testing for major disease la. you get to do some good deeds by donating the blood and at the same time you can be assured that you are not infected with any of these sickness.

2nd thing, they have a free hepatitis B jab for mon and fri only. well, there isnt any hep A jab, but well it's free. so cant complain much. onli condition is you must donate more than 2 times in order to enjoy this benefits.

actually wanna ask you guys, how do you know if your blood develop the immunity after the jab? i was told the hep B jab will take place for 6 months? during these periods there will be testing on ur blood to see if there is any immunity developed?

Hepatitis B immunization is actually involving injection of weak hepatitis B virus into your body. This will activate your immune system to produce antibodies against it. Once the 3 series of jab is complete, you can go and get your blood tested for the antibody.

For the really cheap ones you don't get to ask the doc any questions, coz there's 100 people behind you just waiting their turn.

Immunization for Hep B is quite a simple procedure, of course after 3 course of injection you'll have to run a blood test to see if you're immune. which are usually a few weeks after the immunization.

However, for those who borned in recent years, Hepatitis B immunization are immediately give after birth and subsequent follow by booster at age 2,3,5 months.

Hepatitis A infection are often self-limiting...means if your body are immunocompetent, it'll recover by time. And you may/may not develop immunity afterwards. Hep A immunization are recommended for travellers.

i wanted to go for full body check up also (full body include all(not just blood test)). in johor specialist. anyone know how much it cost?

try those BP lab, pathlab...
sometimes when they are doing promotion it is cheap...

coz need to ask some question. few years ago i go to pathlab, they dont explain too much... almost say nothing...

hmm... just do my body check-up yesterday. cholestrol a bit high (268) . any solution for it to go down? docs did give me some simvastatin 20mg for me. but i like natural food for it to go down by itself...

u got lucky then...

im 21yo, my serum Uric Acid 496 umol/L and bilirubin 18.0 umol/L...

This post has been edited by shinobikit: Jan 19 2008, 11:05 PM

Try BP Healthcare. They have many packages. The cheapest (not sure if it's full) is around RM90.

thats like already above the normal range. wassup with it ???

like this consider good ar?

are there any promotions for blood test? im planning to do a blood test

anyone tried BP healthcare? the other day i called them up and it's RM99 for full body checkup. they claim that it's the same offered by Pantai Premier Pathology lab (RM90).

but BP claimed that they have a doctor to explain your lab result to you whereby Pantai doesnt have any doctor.

true ah?

You should consider also a Skin Carotenoid Score scan to check your body's level of antioxidant to put together with that test. The SCS test is non evasive and only costs rm 20

take the result to your doctor and let the doctor analyse it. pathlab / BP lab etc doesnt include consultation. they are just technician that take your blood, test them and produce a result.

doing a test is cheap. but consultation fee for analysing is the expensive part.

i have go to a specialist hospital to do full body checkup... damn expensive.... the docs told me to go again.... but i wont go there again lar... just go to some clinics to do another time of checkup.... damn cheap

sorry TS..there is no cheap full blood test..the cheapest is RM200-RM300 like dat...y dun u surf the net for cheaper 1?

wat is skin carotenoid score check for? antioxidant is wat eh?

issit? u went to BP lab before? the nurse there say upon getting the result, there is doctor to consult one woh...

u know how to read the report urself ah?

tat's the thing..i dunno where to search..tat's why i open this thread so tat people can share ma....

the thing is there are plenty kinds on blood test. blood test done in pathlab is usually is not as conclusive as the one in hospital. there are general indications, whereas if you are referred to do a blood test in hospital, they might be some specific test against what the doctor want to see.

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Added on March 23, 2008, 11:23 pmthey said only. most bplab dont. even they do, they only know 'oh ok, everything is fine' or 'oh you got this X substance on the low-side' and that is it. but your doctor is the only that hold all your medication and health history and now what he want to look for specifically for you.

This post has been edited by youngkies: Mar 23 2008, 11:23 PM

hmm...i took a pamphlet the other day at california fitness about a wellness screen or something by pathlab..RM80 with 38 tests...it says there exclusively for california fitness members...thought of giving it a try this weekend anyone know about this?

jia lat
so many things to check
and so little $$$$$
what is our gov doing ah ?

those private labs always have this promotion thingy going on and its kinda cheap actually e.g. around rm100. the tests included in the packages offers are reasonable enough to check the status of your health. it would be better if you know what tests to go for, its even better because some of the tests included doesnt really serve any purpose

This post has been edited by LoveMeNot: Aug 14 2008, 09:00 AM

ive never had a blood test in my life. maybe i did when i was 1st born, but at 19 years old now izzit to young to take a blood test or should i godo it ? how will they take the blood test ?

Normal Blood Test check for hepatitis B cost how much in Malaysia's Clinic? and how much is the anti hepatitis B injection cost?

after reading this thread, seem like there's no affirmation of whether doing blood test in this small lab is good or just a kind of suburban paranoia myth. so which health care should we rely on their professionalism.

Just walk into one and do one simple one, if turns into no prob, most probably you are fine too. If there's symptom of abnormalities found, you will always required to do further confirmation test. There's no test without error percentile.

how about the body check that main for around chest area?

what kind of test men should do for prostate cancer? anyone experience in this.

ECG u mean? to measure you heart beat? If you suspect you have irregularity on your heart beat

not heart beat. jsut want to check why my chest pain

start with ECG, to see whether abnormal to your heart beat

how bout prostate?

Hrmmmm government clinic/hospital cannot do full-body checkout?

saw somewhere must go to national blood center. wonder if the wait is long?

gonna have a full blood test at a private hospital or probably at a clinic(is it cheaper doing it at hospital?)..how much does is it cost?and by saying full blood test that includes stds,hiv and other type of disease right?sorry for sounding dumb

This post has been edited by life09: Jan 30 2013, 04:29 AM

cheaper if u go pathlab etc, they usually have packages.

Full blood test may include:

1. Full blood count (e.g. white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets)
2. Biochemistry measurement (e.g. cholesterol, protein, glucose)
3. Urine checkup (e.g. physical and chemistry components)
4. Blood type (ABO Grouping) ( always come in a package)
5. Thyroid function (e.g. T4, T3)
6. Hepatitis B related
7. Tumour marker (e.g. PSA, CA-125, AFP

so by going hospital is cheaper is it?

how about stds and hiv?can we like replace it like for example I dont want the blood type result so I want it to switch with stds or hiv result?

Usually if you go to the lab and you want cheaper rate, tests are clustered into packages. As far as I know, the test cannot be replaced with others. STDs and HIV tests are more expensive compared to e.g. blood type testing.

but cant be more than rm250 right?

You can always give them a call to ask about the pricing

haha good idea but just asking this forum experiences from taking blood test

Hi , which clinic from Subang? I wanna go perform checkup too.
I want the report from Gribbles.

Hi..Which clinic..can share?

Still cannot find out which clinic liaise with Gribbles lab.
Ended up checked with Pathlab during promotion period on June.

oh wats pathlab promo?

online for pathlab no list of packages etc

Guys where is the cheapest place to take a blood & urine test??
Rm200 for it is just to expensive for me...

Just go klinik kesihatan la.

Oh ok it can be done there too? I didn't know.

Of course can. Rm1 only. but result available in few days - 1 week time. Just ask and see when can get results.

Wow that's great thanks. I really don't know these things.

So far in 2017 i found Lablink Medical Laboratory is the cheapest one. Last month i bring my mother for a Full body blood test with cost RM80. i was shock!! big gap from other lab .


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