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Could anyone help with my blood results?

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InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream · 23/05/2018 18:38

I see such an enormous amount of knowledgeable advice given from you lovely people that I wonder if you can help me?
I'm a 45 yr old female with typical boringly long history of nagging health complaints- anxiety (well controlled on fluoxetine), extreme tiredness and lethargy, frequent headaches,skin complaints including very dry skin and funny bumpy rashes on elbows and knees that come and go,and a twenty year history of irritable bowel type symptoms.

I've had blood tests in the past which just showed slight anaemia.

I went back to the GP recently asked to be tested for coeliac-and she also ran a full panel-liver and kidney function came back dead normal but others are as follows;

TSH: 2.8 mu/L. 0.27 - 4.20mu/L
Calcium: 2.18 mmol/L. 2.15 - 2.55mmol/L
Vit D: 31 - abnormal-gp recommends supplements
Haemoglobin estimation: 109g/l. 120-150 g/l
Ferritin: 5 ug/l. 13 - 150ug/l
B12: 228 pg/mL. 180-914pg/l
Serum folate: 4.4 ng/ml. 3.10-20.00ng/ml
ESR: 31 mm/h. 0-12mm/h
Coeliac screen- normal

Obviously from this I'm anaemic and ferritin is very low, and because my ESR is also high my gp referred me to gastroenterologist for bowel investigations.Gastro was pretty dismissive and thinks I just have IBS, he basically shrugged when I mentioned my ferritin level is 5. He is going to do a colonoscopy just to be sure though. In his clinic letter he said the anaemia doesn't warrant further investigation as I still have periods. Even though they are normal and not heavy. 

The gp will discuss iron supplements etc once I have had the colonoscopy. I did ask for more detailed thyroid tests: free t3 and 4 and thyroid antibodies but she refused, saying my thyroid result was dead normal and my symptoms were probably just caused by anaemia, which goes against a lot of the advice I have seen, but I don't feel I can argue with my doctor, even though a lot of my values are at the bottom end, like B12, but she won't do further testing as they are 'normal'.

Any thoughts? I really don't want to feel this grotty for the next twenty years!

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LetsPlayBamboozled · 21/07/2018 15:18

Sorry you're having such a hard time with this, feeling rubbish for ages abd being fobbed off is awful. If you do have CD it is likely that you won't see much change in your absorption of Iron or VitD so doing as they suggest and retesting is at least a good start, if it doesn't improve much and you do not feel better please find a gp who will listen to you. I wish I had instead of all the 'oh your Iron hasn't increased much after taking the tablets, but nevermind, it's probably just because you have heavy periods, just one of those things, off you go' Hmm Do you have any family history of Coelaic? They seem to take family links more seriously these days.

InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream · 22/07/2018 19:48

Thank you for your reply lets. Some of my family have symptoms but haven't been tested, so I don't really know. I've been taking my Iron and Vit D supplements for a month and don't feel much different yet. The are re-testing bloods next week. Probably only fbc though.

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