Alright GIna and other bloodwork gurus...here's my 1 year lalbs

WBC: 4.1
RBC: 4.27
HEMOPLATELET COUNT GLOBIN: 13.3
HEMATOCRIT: 38.8
MEAN CELL VOLUME (do I have nice ones?): 90.8
MEAN CELL HGB: 31
MN CELL HGB CONC: 34.2
RED CELL DISTRIB: 13.7
PLATELET COUNT: 252
MEAN PLT VOLUME: 8.9
LYMPHOCYTE: 36.9
MONONUCLEAR 6.6
NEUTROPHIL 54.9
EOSINOPHIL PERCE 1.
BASOPHIL PERCENT 0.6
LYMPHOCYTE ABSOL 1.5
MONONUCLEAR ABSO 0.30
NEUTROPHIL ABSOL 2.2
SODIUM 139
POTASSIUM 4
CHLORIDE 103
CARBON DIXOIDE 29
ANION GAP 7
GLUCOSE 87
UREA NITROGEN BL 18
CREATININE 0.6
EST GFR CAUC >90
EST GFR NON CAUC >90
CALCIUM 9.1
PHOSPHORUS SERUM 4.1
TOTAL BILIRUBIN 0.7
TOTAL PROTEIN 7.6
ALBUMIN 4.5
SGOT AST 17
SGPT ALT 16
ALK PHOSPHATASE 66
CHOLESTEROL 185
TRIGLYCERIDE 99
DIRECT HDL CHOL 56
LDL CALCULATED 110
VLDL CALCULATED 20
CHOL/HDL RATIO 3.0
SELENIUM 132
FERRITIN 10L
FOLATE >20
VITAMIN B12 >1500
HGB A1C 5.3
PTH INTERP 21
VITAMIN B1 THIAMI 20
ZINC SERUM 103

DOC says I'm doing great and that he's jealous of my cholesterol which I was amazed cause last year my cholesterol was 260!!!

Love ya and thanks for any input!

Very nice!!!  Except for your iron stores (ferritin). Whatcha taken for iron now? You might want to talk to your doc about prescribing Proferrin Forte or getting OTC Proferrin ES from www.Vitalady.com (or other online sources). If you get the Proferrin Forte the only difference is it also has folic acid. Your folate is good now, so you'd be awesome.

Love your protein, albumin, AST, ALT, PTH and calcium. I'd really like to know what your vitamins D and A are though.

--gina

Does it make you feel better knowing my Ferritin is actually up from 8 at y 6 month labs? At my 6 months they put me on Maxoron Forte which is an iron supplement that from what Doc said we WLS patients tolerate better. I don't have a problem with constipation anymore that's for dang sure! hahaha my NUT said that's one of the add'l reasons they prescribe that for the patients there is that you don't get the stop up like you normally do with iron

They didn't take my D & A, I'll have to ask next time! Thanks for your input :)
I was also anemic when discharged after surgery so he's excited it's gone up and told me to keep taking my maxoron forte.

How many mg of iron and what form? Proferrin is heme iron. What you're describing sounds like it's heme too. Maybe just not enough.
 

I'm supposed to be taking 1 capsule per day...I'm not sure how many milligrams it is b/c CVS is stupid and doesn't put it on there...They ticked me off when I changed my scrip to them on Sunday! Anyways I digress...the past 6 months I've been bad about being consistent on it...so now I take it with dinner every nite so should be much better at 18 month appt.
it is a combo product that contains iron along with vitamin C vitamin B12 and folic acid...must be whiy those are so good! hahhaa

See if they can tell you what form of iron and how many mg per dose. If it requires vitamin C, it isn't heme iron. You can add OTC heme iron to your other vites...it's like liver or something--organic and won't interfere with your other iron. I take a combo of carbonyl w/vite C in the afternoons and a heme iron at bedtime. The combo approach works great.

--g