I’m not sure if the complete results are in yet or not to be honest. They have kind of been trickling in, so perhaps more are yet to come, we’ll see.
I am taking the Forest Leaf brand D3 as well, 50000 IU and I believe just once daily. I guess it’s probably worth mentioning that my Vit D levels came back somewhat low pre-op and I had been prescribed Vit D (I believe at the time it was just 50000 IU weekly) to try and get that up. For context, pre-op Vit D measured at 37 ng/mL on Dec 30, up from just 15.1 ng/mL on August 28. I guess it’s sounding like they should’ve made it a point to get that up higher pre-op but truthfully I just didn’t really know any better at the time. I’m wondering then if perhaps I should go ahead and up my dosage in the meantime?
With regards to iron…
8/29/21 ferritin level was 213.3 ng/mL, iron level 60 ug/dL, iron binding capacity 304 ug/dL, and Iron saturation 20%
I will have to look into infusions and see what is or isn’t covered. I guess it sounds like it’s next to impossible to “catch up” on iron pills alone? Unfortunately I’m sure that having a pretty major blood-loss event probably put a pretty good dent in those iron numbers, so probably even harder to catch up than usual, so to speak.
