elmoemerson@webtv.net ha scritto:

Thanks Elmo! :)

You helped a lot, as well as others, here.

I don't know, I feel the need to celebrate this someway, don't know how
but I'll manage to find something...

Cheers,
jeeb.

JV ha scritto:

Yes, my doctor keeps telling me it's normal that ferritin is not being
in the range during treatment.

I don't think TBI was scheduled. Thanks for the advice, I will keep an
eye on it.

FT3:     3.2     (used range: 2.3-4.2)
FT4:    1.24    (used range: 0.8-1.7)
TSH:    1.47    (used range: 0.1-4.0)

What do you think about them?

Thanks,
jeeb.

Was that 38 your actual iron level, or was it your iron saturation level? If
the former, it's indeed remarkably low; if the latter, it's almost dead center
of normal range.

With all of this, what actually were your RBC and HGB levels on the same test?

I suspect our cases are more identical than not. My tests were drawn 5 days
after my last IFN shot, and with a few days of Riba to finish. My iron
saturation level (Iron over Total Iron Binding Capacity) was 38% on that test
(Iron was 132 ug/dl, TIBC was 344). Again, smack dead center of normal range.

In this case, I certainly would take your GI docs advise over your GP, and
wait for another set of test results taken at least a couple of week outs from
the end of therapy. And definitely *don't* throw iron at your anemia, which
almost certainly is a transient side effect of therapy.

So how are you feeling these days? Feeling any rise in energy levels yet?

Cheers

/greyhackles

Re: Good news: ETR  

Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Sat, Oct 8, 2005, 2:42am (CDT-2)
From: ghibelno@yahoo.it (ghibelno)
ghibelno wrote:
Hi all,
               I just got 48th week (End
of treatment) lab results: UNDETECTABLE! :) Yes!
LFTs do look great to me too:
                ALT:   24
        AST:   22
Thyroid levels are in the range, so it looks ok, doesn't it?
Iron is very low (38) and ferritin a little bit over the range: 584,
what do you think about these ones?
[...]
Cheers,
jeeb.
Well, thanks all for your comments, they helped me a lot, as usual :)
I'm just coming from my family doctor's office, now, as he said he
wanted to check labs et cetera.
He was actually satisfied by the response during treatment. He said
liver parameters looks fine, and thyroid too. He is still concerned
about the anemia I showed during and at the end of treatment, anyway.
In his opinion an iron level value of 38 is a little bit to low. He
would like me to start taking an iron supplement, make labs to check for
blood in bowels and have another lab test to check LFT, iron and
ferritin in a month.
So, I told my gastroenterologists about this and they said they agree
but about taking iron.
In their opinion, in fact, anemia (and then low iron) is due to the fact
my body was still on treatment when I gave the last blood sample (one
week after the last Interferon injection and the morning after the last
riba pills). And, more, taking iron with a high ferritin level (which in
their opinion should be related to treatment as well) is not a good
thing.
So they're going to talk one another about the whole thing on Monday and
then let me know what to do.
So that's the way it is. I still feel good and going to celebrate,
tonight or tomorrow, somehow.
Have a nice day you all.
Cheers,
jeeb.
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Your GI doc has it correct.  
Elmo

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