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Ferritin blood test

Hi. I'm hoping I'm not alone on this. So 3 weeks ago now I had what I presumed was a heart attack, tight painful chest pains radiating to my left arm, heavy sweating and dizziness. Called ambulance and taken to hospital. Had bloods taken and told that I'd had a heart attack as my Troponin levels were

UPDATE: *TW* Positive OMG, I cannot believe it... but it is POSITIVE 💫The clinic just called to confirm my HCG levels are good for what they would like to see at this stage. I know it is a long way to go, but the emotional relief at the moment is INSANE. I am trembling and cannot believe this

I had a phone consultation with Guys this afternoon. For the first time they asked for blood tests before the appointment. This was arranged locally by my specialist nurse, the results to be emailed to Guys. I had to phone three times over 4 days before the results were emailed through, usual nurse had

Hi all,I have been on peg interferon for 10 weeks. Platlets decreased fast from 1713 to 1405 after 2 weeks on 45mg, then to 898 after 2 weeks at 90mg, then after 2 weeks at 135mg they came down to 689 all bloods fine,I have been on 135mg since and I did a blood test last week because I have to see my

I completed Zytiga at beginning of June. I tapered appropriately from Pred. without issues. I have been quite sore in my joints since I ended Pred. I requested a check of cortisol level with blood test last week. It has not returned to normal. I have also been able to reduce blood pressure med

Can anyone help me i came off Levothyroxine seven weeks ago my dr advised it i couldn’t tolerate them. I am going back for another blood test and was wondering what is the best medication in your opinions. Thank You.

I am on watch and wait. My GP did a blood test and it showed my wbc as 34.5 all it said was abnormal but expected. I’m not sure this is passed on to my Consultant and haven’t been able to talk to my GP. I’ve been feeling unwell and breathless lately and have a CT scan tomorrow on my lungs as they were

I just had a follow-up with my GP (the unicorn one) - she’s been gobsmacked at my progress on the more regular B12. Interestingly, my most recent blood tests for the neurologist included B12/folate levels (which I wasn’t fussed about as I’m self-managing the B12 at home). I had done an injection the

I was diagnosed PA 20 years ago. and had monthly injections. I moved to England and new surgery. After blood tests I was reduced to every 3 months. Then when Covid happened I was told to get the b12 lozenges from chemist. I knew I was going backwards and all the initial symptoms returned so I started

Hello, I have recently had a blood test after visiting my gp with pains in my right leg (which I have had since the birth of my son 13 years ago) that had travelled and become more persistent, as well as pain and numbness in my right arm leading to a cold hand. A full blood test has shown my folate

My history is a CLL diagnosis around Sept of 2016. I started the Ibrutinib/Venetoclax trial at MDA in Jan 2017 achieving MRD U in April 2019. Clear sailing until April ‘22 when my blood test showed .07 CLL cells that doubled every 6 months. Showing no symptoms, my Doc did not recommend treatment.

hi Found out I have ITP June 4th. Looking back I think I’ve had it a long time (probably for years but not all the time and maybe not low low). This year I’d been bruising a lot on my legs arms and midriff. Found out I had a count of 8. Steroids for a few weeks which put it back up to around the 140

Hi not sure if anyone is aware but I applied online and received a kit for Thyroid blood tests, on reading instructions before use it stated do not use if taking corticosteroids/prednisolone so had to return and received a refund, this was not mentioned anywhere on the website (I have been back on to

My question is has anyone developed atherosclerosis due to an MPN. None of this started till this year. My platelets were one million fifty seven thousand the other day when doing a blood test prior to my procedure Monday. I take hydroxurea and low dose aspirin for the platelet issue. Does not seem to

My ejection fraction has gone down from 40 to 35 and I'm wondering how to get it back up again. I'm sure it is tablet related as I take a lot of medication for heart failure as well as Parkinson’s drugs and my BP is always very low (normal for me but lower readings lately). I know exercise and fibre

My ejection fraction has gone down from 40 to 35 and I'm wondering how to get it back up again. I'm sure it is tablet related as I take a lot of medication for heart failure as well as Parkinson’s drugs and my BP is always very low (normal for me but lower readings lately). I know exercise and fibre

I got some scary ELF and LFT in Feb this year - ALT Over 100 and retest showed it was rising + ELF just below the 10.5 marker. I was 15.5 stone with BMI 36 Was referred to Heptology - (still no appointment from there now). I went down a depressing Google rabbit hole as - (apart from this site) didn

Hi I have not been in a good place so sorry for not posting this earlier. And socializing is so hard. My results say My brain scan was normal apart from a few small areas of hyperintensity, with no inflammatory changes, so no further investigations required. My whole spine scan shows some wear

Hi all, I am meant to take one 5mg tablet of folic acid with each injection, that's every 2/3 days. These were keeping my levels high but the tablets give me stomach ache and discomfort, so I switched to daily liquid drops (methylayted) of 400 micrograms per recommend dose. This also seemed to work although

I'm in my early sixties. Generally very good health. On no medication. About twenty five years ago my then brilliant GP did a blood test for B12. A few days later rang me to come to the surgery immediately where he injected B12 himself. Apparently I had dangerously low levels of B12 that indicated I