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my estrogen levels seem to be ok. my cholesterol is absurdly low, as always. my glucose is in normal reference ranges, but i remain concerned that it keeps coming in at over 5 on fasting - it's at the high end of reference ranges, which is a little out of balance given that everything else is low.
but, i'm apparently dangerously anemic - or that's what it looks like on first glance. but, while a number of 12 ug/ml may be dangerous for men, it's not that unusual, if definitely on the low end, for women. my rbc counts are pegged as low....for men. they're not that off, for women.
so, i'll need to have a talk at my appointment on friday, but i'm not sure what the right reaction is. how should i be measuring this, given that i've been estrogen dominant for my entire adult life?
i clearly get a large amount of iron in my diet - if it's too low, i'm just not absorbing it, which means what? internal bleeding? what?
while i get frequently annoyed by people smoking, i don't otherwise think i have the symptoms of anemia. but, both my father and his mother were always very concerned that i might develop some level of anemia, like they were concerned about something genetic. if it was ever explained to me, i've forgotten.
i'm surprised by this - my b12 levels are extremely high. i'm absorbing that. if i'm not absorbing iron, it's not anything i'm doing wrong, it's something broken in my instruction set. and, i guess we'll have to have a talk about this.
that said, these results can be finnicky as well, and i'm going to request a second test to confirm it before i react.
i then spent some time concerning myself with this and reading up on some things regarding it, before i crashed halfway through my fruit - an annoyance, but not an unexpected one. i needed to catch up on sleep, and the blood test seems to have tired me out.
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i also have high eosonophils, for some reason.
i don't actually know what that means, but i'm going to need to find out.
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while jumping to conclusions on this is unjustified, i'm leaning back towards that old concern about ms, again.
i'm going to wait before i freak out.
but, my initial reaction to understanding what this means is that it's just another piece of evidence towards ms.
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proving you have ms is hard.
and, the unfortunate reality is that it doesn't help much, because there's no treatment options.
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what i'm doing - bombarding myself with vitamins and trying as much as i can to avoid smoke - is about as much as can be done for ms.
but, like....am i bleeding? wtf.
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i wonder if the high eosinophils response could be a reaction to cleaning down here.
a few days ago, i was blowing dust out of my nose.
i guess that's the simplest answer. but, i definitely want to keep an eye on it .
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my counts are elevated - 1.0x10^9/L - but not high enough to bring up concerns like leukemia.
and, this is the first notice of it.