Re: Worn out, any one know anything about anemia?

[Guest guest]

hi amanda,

ferritin can be raised (or at apparently good level) due to inflammation

somewhere ...i keep reading that it is more informative to have a full iron

panel done and that saturation needs to be 35%.

i'm sorry you're feeling well under par and wish you better.

trish

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> Hi everyone,

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> Have recently been feeling very weak and tired,and have become so exercise

intolerant that even walking on a flat surface or climbin g one flight of stairs

leaves me breathless and feeling like I've done a high intensity cardio

session. (vaguely sick)

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> I'm on HC, T3 and NT as well as Vit C, 4 NAX. I was thinking I might have

a heart problem, sudden heart attacks run in my family and I do hold on to lot

of water, specially round my middle. I recently took diuretics for 4 days and

the stomach vanished. Still breathless though. However, tonight I decided

to go through test results from the past 18 months.

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> Have found that my folate 18 months ago was 5.2 (3.4 - 17.5)

> The MCV was 83.1 (80 - 100) (this shows small blood cells)

> But ferritin was 95.

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> It could well be that folate is now lower, I haven't supplimented. How does

this tie in with good ferritin?

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> Any ideas please? What should I ask the doc for? (Do I really have to

go?)

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> x

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[Guest guest]

>Have found that my folate 18 months ago was 5.2 (3.4 - 17.5) The MCV was 83.1

(80 - 100) (this shows small blood cells)But ferritin was 95.

>It could well be that folate is now lower, I haven't supplimented. How does

this tie in with good ferritin?

this has been bothering me ...i think it is *enlarged* blood cells that indicate

folate and/or vit b12 deficiency and small blood cells indicate iron deficiency.

(haemoglobin would be low too).

apparently h.pylori can be a cause of low ferritin.

trish

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>

> Hi everyone,

>

> Have recently been feeling very weak and tired,and have become so exercise

intolerant that even walking on a flat surface or climbin g one flight of stairs

leaves me breathless and feeling like I've done a high intensity cardio

session. (vaguely sick)

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

Well I went to the docs for some tests, I gave the locum a list of tests I

would like along with reasons for them, I told her I thought I was either

anemic or had heart problems. She listened to my heart and apparantly there

is a murmur, so I had a ecg which was fine, and having a echocardiogram at end

of dec.

They took 7 vials of blood last thursday, the receptionist has just telephoned

me and some tests are back. There is a problem with the liver test and they

want to see me. I have a choice of doctors, the ignorant dutch one that is mad

keen to stop t3 and get me on lots of T4...., or the patronising bitchy one who

just wants to play golf and thinks I should try lighter life......

Decisions decisions....... any ideas? would poor liver function make me

tired and exercise intolerant? I rarely drink alcohol as I don't like it.

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[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I'm still hammering this one out.... The Docs took blood and rang me in a panic

saying doc wants to see me. So I went to see the receptionist yesterday and

asked for the results (with ref ranges). The docs was quite because of the snow

and she had time to read them out whilst I scibbled. Then the snotty nurse

came in and was just patronising and rushed like she thought I shouldn't be

given the results. I explained patiently that I would see the doc about them,

but that I wanted to know the results first, so I could work out a solution, as

my health care is a two way thing, I don't just blindly obey the doctor. (She

had no reply for that )

The panic was because the thyroid test, was just TSH and it was 0.01. Ha ha

ha..... I can rubbish that..... why did they test tsh only..... no problem

there.....

and the liver test results were all ok except Alkaline phosphatase which was

358 (100 - 335). Comments????

The other results of significance which they said were ok, but I'm thinking are

not..... are:

B12 431 (210 - 920)

Folate 8.5 (has to be more than 5.4)

MCV 80.7 (80 - 100) This has dropped a little. It shows the

blood cells as small which indicate low iron. Low folate or B12 would cause

large cells)

Thyrocites (Red blood count?) 19 (supposed to be less than 20)

Everything else was in middle of range and looks fine to me. So, they never

measured ferritin, but last year this was good (may well have been infection).

Could I be low on both Iron and B12? hence the small blood cells (which are

getting smaller).....

Thalassemia? where the rbc stay small but no real cure.... prevalent in some

parts of the world... not here, though my ancestry is Italian and Polish....

(How?)

I think I should try Iron and B12..... are they ok together?

I have agreed to allow the doc to see me on Tuesday next week and want to be

sure I know what I want by then.

Tests I requested that were not done were:

**Copper (this can mimic anemia as it stops the red blood cells from using

available iron)

**Ferritin

**D3

**Magnesium

**Helicobactor Pylori (Most commoncause of Iron deficiency, husband was

treated but I was never tested)

x

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> Hi , have a look at this web site - the symptoms definitely sound as

> if your low folate could be the cause of you feeling as you do

> http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/anaemia_folate.html