Hi ladies, I had my baby boy nearly 5 weeks ago by emergency c section, had some problems with blood pressure going high & low but before & during the op & lost around 800mls of blood I think. When they went to discharge me my
blood results were showing really high levels of protein, I think it was called crp but not sure. Anyway was telling the HIV last week how I was still feeling awful & she sent me for blood tests & still waiting on most of them to come back but my iron levels came back & they are 7 so is low. How will it be treated? Will I need a transfusion? How long before I feel normal?
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Basically I unit of blood should raise your Hb by 1gram - I would expect you to have three units based on that (we usually - slightly arbitrarily - transfuse to a Hb >10). Iron tablets will raise your Hb by 1g every 4 weeks (roughly). I imagine, unless you are very short of breath or have palpitations or dizziness, they will go with oral.
Don't worry about a CRP raises post operatively. C-Reactive protein is raised in infection, inflammation and after surgery.
Thanks Dr Fluffy, was hoping you would be about no I don't want a transfusion but am getting dizzy and scares me so as long as whatever they give me stops that I'm happy.
Don't underestimate the effect of having a baby on your body either. I'm still not entirely sure I feel back to normal... Not helped currently by monkey boy refusing to nap when exhausted! He's really grouchy and insisting on being held...
They used to check ur iron levels the day after u came home from hospital. ..I really dint know why they stopped doing it. ..I still don't feel right dr has given me s form to check iron levels... hope u feel better loads of iron rich foods as well. ..I airways remember my dad cooking me liver onion and bacon with broccoli and mash when I came home after having my first yummy x
Thanks ladies, as usual you are always a great help. I feel like other people ie. friends and extended family expect me to be bouncing around the place were as I feel like I've been run over by a bus & that's before you take the colic, constipation & refusing to sleep with my wee man into account x
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