About that hgb

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Thank you all so very much for responding. Poncho, if liver and

onions tasted half as good as it smells cooking I would eat it all

the time,,, yuck! Ya'll are right tho, a hgb of 5.4 is dangerously

low. The nurse didn't seem to be alerted at all and I am beginning

to wonder if she even had the right numbers. Maybe she just said 5

and it was really a 9. A girl can hope anyway.

If it is in fact a 5.4 I am going to be really ticked off with that

doctor. Those labs were drawn a month ago and that is something I

should have been called about. If it is that low, I think I need to

get a new doctor. I did send an email to the surgeon at MUSC that

has taken care of me for so long. He has access to my labs. I had

forgotten to ask what the hct was, thought about that after I had

hung up the phone. See even nurses loose objectivity when it comes

to themselves or love ones.

Laurie and Poncho, I dont think I have an internal bleed, that would

have been evident by now, in my stools at the very least. But I had

been terribly weak and this morning I had visual changes. Just

marked that up to getting old(er). I did buy some iron pills when I

was shopping for Easter Bunny stuff today. I eat well so I dont

think that is an issue. I am still loosing weight, but a few weeks

ago it jumped up considerably. I was really puffy then and thought

it to be just that. Maybe the situation has already taken care of

itself.

Debs I appreciate the suggestion, if it is that low I think a retest

is in order. Hopefully I wont need anything else. Hopefully the

nurse just screwed up. I had a total with iselts 4 months ago so

maybe its just normal for the iron to fluncuate. I have been taking

a MVI with iron for some time now.

Well I'm hping its just an error some where. However it would

explain, as pointed out, this mental confusion

thingy..LOL OHh what was I talking about again...LLOL

Thanks ya'll I really apprecaite the info. I knew I could count on

ya'll to help out.

Take care ya'll.

Chrissy

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Hi Chrissy,

I have had a personal experience of internal blood loss (significantly) that

was absolutely not reflected in how I felt, activity level, and not evident in

stool condition. It was only diagonised by a hemocult test and subsecquent

blood test. I think it is dependent on exactly where the blood loss occurs in

the GI tract. The higher in the tract, the less evident it is except for

testing.

Best wishes, Poncho - GA