blood tests

i forgot to mention in my last post that i did get blood test results back at my doctor's visit this week. everything came back fairly normal. one of my iron numbers, the one that measures that iron in my blood, is completely normal. the other number, my iron storage (ferritin), is still low but almost normal, according to my doctor. he said the normal range is 15-290, and i'm at 11. is it just me, or does that sound like a huge range??

if my iron is almost normal, and i've been told my symptoms were caused by low iron, wouldn't you expect those symptoms to have disappeared by now? unfortunately, they haven't.

i have my CT scan tomorrow, and my doctor referred me to a pulmonary specialist as well as a sleep disorder specialist. i don't think anyone really thinks i have a sleep disorder, i think we're just all out of other ideas.

oh, and results from the stress test, when the techs freaked out that they saw something, came back totally normal. my guess? i think maybe the spike in my heart rate occurred when the techs were talking about the donuts in their break room, since i hadn't eaten in 4 hours at that point. i guess love will do that to your heart.

- L