Update on me!

Good to hear things are almost back to normal!!

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"Chookie" wrote in message
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Went to the doctor's again last week to get my blood test results back...

Haemoglobin: 11 (normal is 12-16)
Ferritin: 117 (120 is the bottom of the normal range)

Practically back to normal! My new iron pills are plainly working well!
I
never saw my haemoglobin over 13 even when I started donating blood in my
20s.
Between births, the highest my ferritin reached was 126, which my Dr was
not
happy with: plainly it would be dropping below 120 whenever I menstruated.
(I eventually gave up trying to get it to go higher and had DS2 in spite
of my
borderline iron status.)

We've been a bit worried because my BP has been up since the birth and the
diastolic was 86 last time, so my Dr, as well as the hospital midwives,
was
starting to make noises about Essential Hypertension Showing Up In
Pregnancy
and Needing Medication If It Keeps Up...

This time it was 128/72. And I was feeling a bit stressed when she took
it.

Pretty happy! My muscle separation is now only one finger wide (it was
4-5
fingers wide at first).

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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