Post 3 year lab issues

Still Fawn
on 9/20/11 3:06 am - SIERRA MADRE, CA

My lab work for my three year check up came back today. I had been supplementing with tender iron for two years now.. Ferritin had been low two years ago, got it to an all time high of 15 last year, and now back down to 6... Numbers are as such:

WBC: 3.7
RBC: 3.44
HGB: 28
MCH: 26
MCHC: 32
Ferritin: 6

My b-12 is 1078 down from 3100 (I had been over supplementing). My other numbers are normal and steady from last year..

Not sure what other supplementation I should be doing..

Feel like I have been hit by a truck lately, and my insurance (tricare prime at an mtf) apparently won't cover infusions- at least my PCP won't refer me.. He thinks it's low, but not soo bad.

Advice? Please..

I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson

(deactivated member)
on 9/20/11 3:14 am - Newnan, GA

VSG on 05/04/09 with

Proferrin baby. Its heme iron, we absorb it better AND it does not have all the "do not take with/near" caveats that elemental iron has.

vitalady sells it or you can get it from colorado biolabs, their shipping is built into the cost of the bottle, so its 54 bucks for a 3 months supply, whi*****ludes shipping. Not "cheap" but if the there is not working or if you end up not taking it regularly/do not absorb it when you do because of all the "do not take with" caveats, then with the other, cheap means **** if you are not taking it/absorbing it.

My ferritin was 5 at a year out, I took something else for a year, brought me up to 10 (whup) but raised my H&H outta the ballpark, so I broke down after telling mikey about Proferrin and then seeing that it did not have all the caveats of regular iron.

Have not had my labs drawn yet, but a lot of folks have really good results with it. The lightweight board is a good place to ask about proferrin too.

Gotta go flop the girls up and down hills before we get rain, (yaay!) but I wanted to shout out about the proferrin.

(deactivated member)
on 9/20/11 3:22 am

VSG on 04/11/11

Do you know what you were taking that got your H&H up too high? My hematocrit was high last time.. just wondering.. I knoe the Tender is carbonyl.

(deactivated member)
on 9/20/11 4:22 am - Newnan, GA

VSG on 05/04/09 with

It was an OTC I got from vitamin shoppe, Hemaplex it was. And my hemoglobin was still within normal limits but my hematocrit was up to 46.6 with high normal being 45.

Still Fawn
on 9/20/11 3:33 am - SIERRA MADRE, CA

Thanks Brandi! I will have to check into that... If my dr yet again refuses to see the problem..

I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson

(deactivated member)
on 9/20/11 4:23 am - Newnan, GA

VSG on 05/04/09 with

Yea, I am so thankful now to have a PCP that I take my tracking of labs in so she can see how I am trending when we compare, and she is *thankful* to me and glad and gracious, especially when I bring my 2 things of foil to cover the A and the B1 and B6 vials.

injeneral
on 9/20/11 5:23 am

VSG on 08/15/11

What are the normal ranges of all those?

HT: 5'3"      HW: 240     GW: 130     AGE: 30     PCOSer; diagnosed 2003
Month 1: -21.2 (218.8)   Month 2: -10 (208.8)   Month 3: -10.6 (198.2)   Month 4: -8.6 (189.6)
First goal (to be under 200): Nov. 11; 199.2
Second goal: weigh less than my husband (174):

I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings. — Mary Oliver

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(deactivated member)
on 9/20/11 3:18 am

VSG on 04/11/11

hey Fawn, no advice here.. but this is something I am concerned with myself.. Just had one set of regular labs pulled through my doc, and things appear ok. I need to order and get blood drawn for a full iron panel with ferritin.. to check all the levels..

Between the time you started taking Tender Iron, and got to 15 ferritin then to a low of 6, did you change the dose or anything?

Could the plastics recently have caused a drop in iron stores?

Still Fawn
on 9/20/11 3:32 am - SIERRA MADRE, CA

Surgery was the only change.. I know for a teeny bit after the last time I dealt with this I was taking 2 tender irons a day- my dr yelled at me and said no-go on that. I think even the 15 was too low, as my symptoms have never really improved much.. I am back to giving up all my tea (tannins) and caffeine though..

I am still loving life with my sleeve! Been maintaining at or below goal for over 4 years!
"People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within." - Ramona L. Anderson

(deactivated member)
on 9/20/11 4:24 am, edited 9/20/11 4:35 am - Newnan, GA

VSG on 05/04/09 with

Laura and Elina recently had labs showing a drop in their ferritin too, girlie.

with the Proferrin, the tea and coffee is not an issue.. (just sayyinnnn) :}

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