Lab Work - Iv Iron Therapy Anyone?

[cymrudenver]

I saw my PCP today to schedule a bone scan and get labs drawn - Calcium, Ferritin, Iron, Albumin, Vit B12, Vit K, Metabolic Panel and CBC.

Based on the celiac disease diagnosis and the crappy looking biopsies she said that if my iron labs have not improved since those done in April then she's sending me to a hemotologist for IV Iron therapy.

Anyone had any personal experience with this? I'll share my April labs below.

(Normals) Mine

Serum Iron (40-175) 26

% Saturation (15-50) 7

Serum Ferritin (10-154) <1

Thanks for any input.

[ANDOBEAR]

I saw my PCP today to schedule a bone scan and get labs drawn - Calcium, Ferritin, Iron, Albumin, Vit B12, Vit K, Metabolic Panel and CBC.

Based on the celiac disease diagnosis and the crappy looking biopsies she said that if my iron labs have not improved since those done in April then she's sending me to a hemotologist for IV Iron therapy.

Anyone had any personal experience with this? I'll share my April labs below.

(Normals) Mine

Serum Iron (40-175) 26

% Saturation (15-50) 7

Serum Ferritin (10-154) <1

Thanks for any input.

Your lab results look a lot like mine did. After 4 treatments of IV iron and getting gluten out of my diet I feel so much better. It was a pain to make the time top go and have the treatments but it really is worth it. The energy you will have after is amazing. My levels are still on the lower side so we're just keeping an eye on things for now. I think it was worth it.