Re: Repost at suggestion of NTH mods/b12

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Here's a link to a post on this subject:

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT3_T3/message/37909

( " Inadequate nutrition " may include malabsorption; for example, there can be

adequate protein intake but it may not be absorbed well.)

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> > > Hey Val:

> > > Sorry to unearth this old thread, but I have been off-line with resp

infection and pneumonia!!! (could also have contributed to my RT3 of 261). I

have not trimmed this post deliberately so as to refresh/bump. I have ordered

the Bluebonnet from Amazon, but if memory serves me correctly, it is 27 mg..Are

you saying milligrams? or micrograms? If milligrams, that would be 8 tabs

daily?

> > > Thx for clearing this up.

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> > > Also, I am still unsure about what to do with elevated

hemoglobin/hematocrit levels even with low ferritin. I have a doc that is

willing to try to let me attempt upping ferritin and phlebotomy if H/H further

elevate..Does this make sense to you?

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> > > Angie

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[Guest guest]

Margery:

I don't have impaired RBC formation or hemaopteisis..the opposite..again an

elevated hemoglobin and hematocrit..along with low ferritin. My doc suspects

secondary polycythemia (due to excess androgen production).

A.

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> > Margery, thanks..can you elaborate? I have had B12 results (actually high

on several measures that would indicate a polycythemia vera) at both ends of the

scale..I think my last assessment was below the 500 " ideal " cited by the " Could

It Be B12 " author. IOW, serum B12 hasn't made a difference...still have had

high H/H with low or low normal ferritin.

> > Angie