Hi all,
So I just recently (7/1) had my 6mo. follow-up labs taken.
I have a follow-up appointment with my surgeon this Friday to review the results but figured I would go ahead and post here as well.
Some of you may recall my DS story and how I had a pretty rough start to things. You can read more about that here if you have not. I'm happy to report that things are going much better for the most part and am feeling relatively "normal" now, but still not totally 100% perfect yet. Anyways, though...
First off is just my results as I received them.
Lipid Panel:
Magnesium Level: 2.2 mg/dL
Vit D Total Screen ("Immunoassay Roche Method): 38.7 ng/mL
Prealbumin Level: 14.3 mg/dL (Low)
B12 Level: 1019 pg/mL
And here is what I'm currently taking, broken up into separate times (if anyone thinks I should move anything around, let me know, of course!).
Morning (I wake up around 7:30 and make sure to take this by 9:00am):
1000mg Vitamin C
2mg Copper
15mg Zinc
(I had also been prescribed Ursodiol post-op as well as Omeprazole but have since been told to discontinue both)
Lunch (around 12-1pm)
25,000 IU Vitamin A
5000mcg Vitamin B12
300mg Calcium Citrate
400 IU Vitamin E
15mg Zinc
Multivitamin (Currently just taking a Sam's Club brand version of One-A-Day Men's, at least until I run out. Specifics here.)
Evening/Dinnertime (5-6pm)
400 IU Vitamin E
50,000 Vitamin D3
1,200mcg Vitamin B9/Folic Acid
Multivitamin
Bedtime (~11pm)
300mg Calcium Citrate
1000mg Vitamin C
100mcg Vitamin K1
450mcg Vitamin K2
I have also picked up some magnesium citrate (133mg) but it has not arrived yet. Not sure if it bears mentioning also, but I take 500mg Glutamine on days that I work out/run. Truthfully I don't know if it does a ton objectively but anecdotally I always felt like it helped me recover faster pre-op.
I had a brief call with one of the nurses to review some results pre-appointment and didn't hear a ton except that I was prescribed an Iron supplement (picking up today, order shows as Iron 325 (65 Fe) 1 tab 3x daily) as well as a prescription for 500mg Vit C to go along with it (not sure if I really need that though, given I am already getting 2000mg/day?) and that I probably need to drink more water and get in more protein... (She suggested the high osmolality number could perhaps be due to being dehydrated)
I'm glad that it seems like my blood counts have come back to a pretty decent level - esp. compared to where they were...Maybe I'm reading it wrong though, but those iron numbers kinda scare me. Like I said, might be looking at the wrong scale, but that seems really really low. I don't really "feel" like I have super low iron, though, so I'm not sure.
Anyways, I am more or less following the Vitalady recommendations for vitamins, save for taking less Vitamin A as the recommended amount (something like 100,000 IU per day) seemed super high. I am finally starting to feel somewhat "normal" in what I can eat and stuff now, so hopefully things will keep getting better, but if any of you see any tweaks, changes, additions, etc that you would recommend ahead of my follow-up this Friday I'd be happy to hear it.
So I just recently (7/1) had my 6mo. follow-up labs taken.
I have a follow-up appointment with my surgeon this Friday to review the results but figured I would go ahead and post here as well.
Some of you may recall my DS story and how I had a pretty rough start to things. You can read more about that here if you have not. I'm happy to report that things are going much better for the most part and am feeling relatively "normal" now, but still not totally 100% perfect yet. Anyways, though...
First off is just my results as I received them.
Lipid Panel:
- Non-HDL Cholesterol: 66 mg/dL
- LDL/HDL Ratio: 1.7
- Cholesterol/HDL Ratio: 3.2
- LDL-Cholesterol: 51 mg/dL
- HDL-Cholesterol Level 30mg/dL (as I understand it this is the "good" cholesterol and was told it was low; looks like greater than 60 mg/dL is preferred?)
- Triglyceride Level: 77 mg/dL
- Cholesterol Level: 96 mg/dL
- Immature Grans Absolute: 0.01 10*3/uL
- Basophils Absolute: 0.04 10*3/uL
- Eosinophils Absolute: 0.2 10*3/uL
- Monocytes Absolute: 0.39 10*3/uL
- Lymphocytes Absolute: 1.53 10*3/uL
- Neutrophils Absolute 2.72 10*3/uL
- Immature Granulocytes %: 0.2%
- Basophils %: 0.8%
- Eosinophils %: 4.1%
- Monocytes %: 8%
- Lymphocytes %: 31.3%
- Neutrophils %: 55.6%
- MPV: 12 fL
- Platelet Count: 217 10*3/uL
- RDW-SD: 40.8 fL
- MCHC: 30.3 g/dL (Low)
- MCH: 23.5 pg (Low)
- MCV: 77.6 fL (Low)
- HCT: 43.2%
- HGB: 13.1 g/dL
- RBC: 5.57 10*6/uL
- WBC: 4.9 10*3/uL
- Anion Gap: 11
- Osmolality: 297 mosm/kg (High)
- Carbon Dioxide Level: 29 mmol/L
- Chloride Level: 104 mmol/L
- Potassium Level: 3.7 mmol/L
- Sodium Level: 144 mmol/L
- Albumin Level: 4.3 g/dL
- GPT/ALT: 13 U/L
- GOT/AST: 17 U/L
- Alkaline Phosphatase Level: 83 U/L
- Calcium Level: 9.8 mg/dL
- Total Bilirubin Level: 0.9 mg/dL
- Total Protein Level: 6.8 g/dL
- GFR, Estimated, Other (CKD-EPI): 126 mL/min/1.73m2 (???)
- BUN/Creatinine Ratio: 13.4
- Creatinine Level: 0.7 mg/dL
- BUN Level 9.5 mg/dL
- Glucose Level 82 mg/dL
- Iron Saturation: 9% (Low)
- Iron Binding Capacity: 328 ug/dL
- Iron Level: 28 ug/dL (Low)
Magnesium Level: 2.2 mg/dL
Vit D Total Screen ("Immunoassay Roche Method): 38.7 ng/mL
Prealbumin Level: 14.3 mg/dL (Low)
B12 Level: 1019 pg/mL
And here is what I'm currently taking, broken up into separate times (if anyone thinks I should move anything around, let me know, of course!).
Morning (I wake up around 7:30 and make sure to take this by 9:00am):
1000mg Vitamin C
2mg Copper
15mg Zinc
(I had also been prescribed Ursodiol post-op as well as Omeprazole but have since been told to discontinue both)
Lunch (around 12-1pm)
25,000 IU Vitamin A
5000mcg Vitamin B12
300mg Calcium Citrate
400 IU Vitamin E
15mg Zinc
Multivitamin (Currently just taking a Sam's Club brand version of One-A-Day Men's, at least until I run out. Specifics here.)
Evening/Dinnertime (5-6pm)
400 IU Vitamin E
50,000 Vitamin D3
1,200mcg Vitamin B9/Folic Acid
Multivitamin
Bedtime (~11pm)
300mg Calcium Citrate
1000mg Vitamin C
100mcg Vitamin K1
450mcg Vitamin K2
I have also picked up some magnesium citrate (133mg) but it has not arrived yet. Not sure if it bears mentioning also, but I take 500mg Glutamine on days that I work out/run. Truthfully I don't know if it does a ton objectively but anecdotally I always felt like it helped me recover faster pre-op.
I had a brief call with one of the nurses to review some results pre-appointment and didn't hear a ton except that I was prescribed an Iron supplement (picking up today, order shows as Iron 325 (65 Fe) 1 tab 3x daily) as well as a prescription for 500mg Vit C to go along with it (not sure if I really need that though, given I am already getting 2000mg/day?) and that I probably need to drink more water and get in more protein... (She suggested the high osmolality number could perhaps be due to being dehydrated)
I'm glad that it seems like my blood counts have come back to a pretty decent level - esp. compared to where they were...Maybe I'm reading it wrong though, but those iron numbers kinda scare me. Like I said, might be looking at the wrong scale, but that seems really really low. I don't really "feel" like I have super low iron, though, so I'm not sure.
Anyways, I am more or less following the Vitalady recommendations for vitamins, save for taking less Vitamin A as the recommended amount (something like 100,000 IU per day) seemed super high. I am finally starting to feel somewhat "normal" in what I can eat and stuff now, so hopefully things will keep getting better, but if any of you see any tweaks, changes, additions, etc that you would recommend ahead of my follow-up this Friday I'd be happy to hear it.