Re: Help with iron test results

[Guest guest]

Are you hoping for your symptoms to

improve with the month of iron? Or what is your thinking on taking the

month of iron? It might take longer for you to notice improvement.

Iron levels do not come up overnight. They take a while to build.

Maybe others might have an idea of a time frame.

Kim in No Texas

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Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008

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Re: Help with iron test results

I just hope I can get help from a doctor soon. I’m going to

pray that Dr. Corkran will treat me. I’m just not sure if I should do the

month of iron first, finish the ultrasound from the gyn to get her opinion on

why my uterus is enlarged, etc. or just go ahead and make the appt. I’m

afraid she’ll just tell me to wait and see if the anemia thing goes away

and I’ll be fine. I wish I had the money to go to Hotze.

[Guest guest]

The doc wants to retest after a month to

see if it budges I suppose. I’m not holding out any hope for a particular

time frame. I know I didn’t arrive at this stage overnight and it may

take a long time to get better. I’ll just be glad when I can feel like I’m

really doing something that will work to better my health and well being. I’m

just grabbing at straws for the moment. J

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Re: Help with iron test results

I just hope I can get help from a doctor

soon. I’m going to pray that Dr. Corkran will treat me. I’m just

not sure if I should do the month of iron first, finish the ultrasound from the

gyn to get her opinion on why my uterus is enlarged, etc. or just go ahead and

make the appt. I’m afraid she’ll just tell me to wait and see if

the anemia thing goes away and I’ll be fine. I wish I had the money to go

to Hotze.

[Guest guest]

When I started taking iron, I started feeling better a long time before my lab results improved very much. It did take a long time for the hairloss to resolve.Your Web Developer wrote: The doc wants to retest after a month to see if it budges I suppose. I’m not holding out any hope for a particular time frame. I know I didn’t arrive at this stage overnight and it may take a long time to get better. I’ll just be glad when I can feel like I’m really doing something that will work to better my health and well being. I’m just grabbing at straws for the moment. J

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[Guest guest]

I’m taking the iron twice (50mg) now

and will go to the 75 mg after I make sure the 2 are still ok on the tummy. So far, so good. The B Complex made

me feel better for a while till they seemed to wear off in the afternoons, At

least my B12 was 431 so I must be holding on to it. I don’t know what it

was prior to starting the sups.

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Re: Help with iron test results

When I started taking iron, I started feeling better a long time

before my lab results improved very much. It did take a long time for the

hairloss to resolve.

Your Web

Developer

wrote:

The doc wants to retest

after a month to see if it budges I suppose. I’m not holding out any hope

for a particular time frame. I know I didn’t arrive at this stage

overnight and it may take a long time to get better. I’ll just be glad

when I can feel like I’m really doing something that will work to better

my health and well being. I’m just grabbing at straws for the moment. J

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your homepage.

[Guest guest]

I hope you are doing this under a doctor's care and monitoring. Even

otc supplements can be hazardous without knowing what's going on.

My doc prescribed a pharmaceutical strength of B12, B6 and folic acid

called Metanx. It's only available through a prescription. My B12

started out low in the range, and even though the top of the range

for my lab test is 1100, he likes it to be >2000. It went up over

2000 really fast.

>

> I'm taking the iron twice (50mg) now and will go to the 75 mg after

I

> make sure the 2 are still ok on the tummy. So far, so good. The B

> Complex made me feel better for a while till they seemed to wear

off in

> the afternoons, At least my B12 was 431 so I must be holding on to

it. I

> don't know what it was prior to starting the sups.

>

[Guest guest]

Yes, my first tests were 1/23 and I'm supposed to go in another month to

check the levels. Even after 3 months of Bs, no one has thought that 431

was low or any mention of it. I'm sure it's cuz they don't know.

Re: Help with iron test results

I hope you are doing this under a doctor's care and monitoring. Even

otc supplements can be hazardous without knowing what's going on.

My doc prescribed a pharmaceutical strength of B12, B6 and folic acid

called Metanx. It's only available through a prescription. My B12

started out low in the range, and even though the top of the range

for my lab test is 1100, he likes it to be >2000. It went up over

2000 really fast.

>

> I'm taking the iron twice (50mg) now and will go to the 75 mg after

I

> make sure the 2 are still ok on the tummy. So far, so good. The B

> Complex made me feel better for a while till they seemed to wear

off in

> the afternoons, At least my B12 was 431 so I must be holding on to

it. I

> don't know what it was prior to starting the sups.

>