sorry me again...advice please on iron status tests please

[diagnosed2013]

Hi...sorry to post again, but had a doctors appointment yesterday & my blood pressure was high, so they are getting me to do a home blood pressure monitor diary for a week.

when he went through my blood test results he said so iron is fine, everything looks fine, no anaemia....these are my latest results & annoyingly they didn't do ferritin even though requested...

so here are the results:

serum Iron 18 umol/L....range (6 to 26)

Serum TIBC 52 umol/L...range (34 to 86)

Transferrin Saturation index....30%...range (20 to 45)

Serum Transferrin 2.4 g/l....range (1.6 to 4.0)

from these results can anyone tell me if I should be taking an iron supplement or do these numbers look ok? ....

many thanks for your help everyone, this site is so much help

Also my mcv was low on last fbc test & wandering what I can do to increase that, doctor said they are smaller as opposed to bigger.

I don't really want to have to take iron but if levels should be more optimum then would be good to find out....thanks again listening & helpful comments for everyone on here.

[Regenallotment Ambassador]

hi, I see you have been waiting a while for a reply, I’ll tag humanbean who wrote a super reply to someone else on this topic earlier this week.

[diagnosed2013 in reply to Regenallotment]

Thank you...that's very kind of you. I couldn't after 2 attempts of doing a private test with medichecks get a ferritin result...think it gets there too late & they can't get a test out of it...last one I got taken at the same time as another 2 tests I was having done privately at the hospital & i think i forgot to tip it up a few times after she put the blood in for me & that took some getting too..I dont seem to give blood well 😞