ok so here's a new twist in the ongoing saga of "what's wrong with monday"? so i went to my pcp this past friday and she mentioned having a tilt table test on down the road but that she wants to check my bloodwork first. she's convinced that my blacking out episodes are directly related to my blood work and that there's no "vasovagal dysfunction" going on. (whatever... 
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anywho, she ordered a complete work-up (heck i don't think i had this much blood drawn ALL YEAR!!) they forgot to run a couple of the tests that she wanted (whatever one it is that shows your potassium and blood glucose levels) so i won't have those results until tomorrow but the ones that they DID run have come back and are as follows:
cbc - normal
thyroid - fine
vitamin d - REALLY low at 15
b12 - REALLY low at 158
so the plan right now is to go to their office as soon as they come back from lunch today and get my first b12 injection. i have to have one injection a week for four weeks and then one a month for who knows how long. (forever? WITH the sublingual b12? idk...)
and as far as the vitamin d goes? she (the nurse) at first was saying that my pcp wanted me to do over the counter stuff first but then she realized that i'm already getting d with my calcium but that i'm just not absorbing it so we'll probably have to go the prescription route on that one.
so... what does all of this mean? she said that normal vitamin d levels are 32-100 and normal b12 levels are 211-9something. so OBVIOUSLY i'm deficient. obviously. so how come when i had bloodwork done at med-plus a week and a half ago they said that everything came back normal? they said that they did a complete anemia profile and that everything was just hunky-dory. so... i became deficient in a weeks' time? really?? BS!!!
any thoughts on this?
)anywho, she ordered a complete work-up (heck i don't think i had this much blood drawn ALL YEAR!!) they forgot to run a couple of the tests that she wanted (whatever one it is that shows your potassium and blood glucose levels) so i won't have those results until tomorrow but the ones that they DID run have come back and are as follows:
cbc - normal
thyroid - fine
vitamin d - REALLY low at 15
b12 - REALLY low at 158
so the plan right now is to go to their office as soon as they come back from lunch today and get my first b12 injection. i have to have one injection a week for four weeks and then one a month for who knows how long. (forever? WITH the sublingual b12? idk...)
and as far as the vitamin d goes? she (the nurse) at first was saying that my pcp wanted me to do over the counter stuff first but then she realized that i'm already getting d with my calcium but that i'm just not absorbing it so we'll probably have to go the prescription route on that one.
so... what does all of this mean? she said that normal vitamin d levels are 32-100 and normal b12 levels are 211-9something. so OBVIOUSLY i'm deficient. obviously. so how come when i had bloodwork done at med-plus a week and a half ago they said that everything came back normal? they said that they did a complete anemia profile and that everything was just hunky-dory. so... i became deficient in a weeks' time? really?? BS!!!
any thoughts on this?
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