Baseline Test Results - what do you kids think?

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Hey all you Bobs & Bettys:

Just got some test results back and I'm curious what you all think.

I'm particularly taken aback by the homocysteine (and a little

nervous given my cardiac and circulation problems). What do you

know about these things (and the doc threw in the Vit D stuff on his

own!). I've not yet begun treatment for a severe recurrence of Lyme

disease (recently positive IgM Western blot, weakly positive

Babesios (never tested for co-infections before)).

Iron Stuff

TIBC normal 337 (range: 152-496)

Iron normal 100 (range: 40-150)

% Fe Sat normal 30 (range: 15-50)

Ferritin low 9 (10-220)

Hey, do any of you smarties know the diff between all these iron

measures? If 3/4 are normal and the 4th is barely out of range, do

I really need to take iron? What do they differentially indicate?

Homocysteine high 21.9 (range: <13.9)

Cholesterol 112

LDL 42

HDL 60

Triglycerides 48 (all lovely if I do say so myself)

B12 normal 618 (range: 200-1100 pg/ml)

folate normal 5.6 (range: >3.4)

(these are what they are saying I should supplement with the high

homocysteine, but how can that be the problem if these are normal?)

1,25 Vit D: normal 42 (range 15-60 pg/ml)

25 Vit D: low 12 (range 20-100 ng/ml)

[take that MP boy! these are normal and LOW with no avoidance or

supplementation; implications for Lyme as Th1???]

Insulin-like growth factor 1: high 415 (range: 90-360 ng/ml)

Anybody know what the heck this is???? And what does high mean?

Should I be growing some islets of Langerhans for my diabetic

friends or what?

Anyway, would love some info about that homocysteine level from

anyone.