Postby MikeManess » Mon Apr 11, 2016 6:46 pm
I have no idea what happened to my last post. I can see part of it when I search on it, but it's not here. Strange.
Anyway, the issue is that my latest blood test was posted on the UT Southwestern MyChart page. I'm looking and I see that my iron levels are extremely low. IRON <20 ug/dL (59-158 ug/dL), UNSAT IBC 249 mcg/dL (112-346 mcg/dL), TIBC Not Calculable ug/dL (262-474 ug/dL), % SATURATION Not Calculable (%20-50).
While I'm no expert and certainly not a doctor, it seems to me that I'm majorily anemic - which is probably why I feel so fatigued all the time. I have a message in to the doctor asking if I need to do anything, but so far no response. He never mentioned it the other day, but it might have been skipped over because I came in at the end of the day.
Did anyone else have this low of an iron level?
3/11/16 Colonoscopy - 9 benign polyps, 1 large cancerous tumor in right ascending colon
4/19/16 Right colectomy
6/3/16 Two liver spots detected, added Avastin to Folfox
12/20/16 Liver surgery. Pathology shows no active cancer cells
6/7/17 Final chemo
12/5/17 Port removed
05/23/18 Liver tumor discovered in scans
04/04/19 Radiation treatment
08/15/19 Additional radiation treatment
08/21/19 NED again