Not so good results

Last Monday I went to get some bloodwork done and it was ten tubes or more that were taken. Not all were full and there were various colors involved. Plus a midstream urine test. Fortunately, I didn’t pass out after losing all that blood. :D

On Thursday I got a message saying my results were ready so I downloaded the pages and was a bit surprised by some of them. I think most relevant was the fact my iron levels are actually much worse than over a month ago. My ferritin went from 24 to 15 and my iron is down to 9, getting close to low. Fortunately, I am not anemic at this point, just deficient. The only thing that stayed the same was saturation which is at the top end of the normal range. At the rate I’m going, I will likely be anemic by next year as iron stores will be gone by then.

There were some other out-of-normal range results, some that I don’t understand and so I need to talk to the doctor next. I have an appointment tomorrow morning and hopefully, some of this will make better sense. The helicobacter pylori and celiac came back normal which narrows down possible causes for my iron deficiency. I do have a follow-up appointment in January with the doctor who did my colonoscopy and gastroscopy where I understand I may have a capsule endoscopy where I swallow a camera to get more images of my gut.