6 month labs help please
Other things that were flagged are:
Creatinine Serum (normal 0.60-1.10 mg/dL).........................0.59 (L)
Iron (normal 50-170 ug/dL).....................................................39 (L)
Iron Saturation (no normal listed)...........................................9 (L)
Thank you in advance. Other than the fact that I have lost so much hair and I am freezing most of the time (I guess because I lost so much of my insulation) I couldn't be happier :))
I'm not sure what type of iron Ferro-Sequels is but I'm guessing ferrous sulfate or one of the other iron salts. That usually makes people constipated. Most people also absorb carbonyl iron better. If you're worried about constipation, you might wanna ask your doc if carbonyl iron would be OK for you instead (and if doc says no, ask why).
Why are they only putting you on iron for eight weeks? Or do you mean just this type of iron for eight weeks and then you'll take something else? You're going to need iron for the whole rest of your life.
If you take your iron with vitamin C, you'll absorb it better. You need 200 mg C for every 30 mg elemental iron. Keep in mind that iron supplements like ferrous sulfate are not all elemental iron. Like, 325 mg ferrous sulfate only has 65 mg elemental iron. The rest is the iron salts that makes you unable to poop.
How were your other labs? B12? Vitamin D?
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Your B12 is pretty. Your D is low, though.
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Your B12 is also a little low - not terrible but I would increase your sublingual dose = you could even double it and be fine. WE want to be between 1200-1800 and can go to 2000. There is no danger in being to high but very dangerous to be too low.
You also need to take vitamin D - dry D3 from vitalady.com - 50,000 units 2 times per week and get retested in 2 months
Your creatinine is fine, don't worry we all tend to run low. It has to do with the high protein diet we eat.
My doctor told me that hair loss will be a side effect of the surgery until my body gets used to the idea of what I just did to it...he says up to two years.
As far as hair loss, it usually doesn't last nearly as long as two years. I think most people say it lasts about three or four months. Everyone's different though and some lose a lot more than others and a few lucky people hardly lose any. What will probably happen is it will get thin and then grow back even thicker and healthier than before due to all the vitamins you take now. I lost a lot and I finally got it cut short and that makes it less noticable.
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