Need help with blood test results - RBC, HGB, HCT has fallen significantly in less than week

You have an autoimmune disease. You are at risk for many issues.

Be smart. Make sure vitamin d3 is a supplement you take.

Not sure what treatment drugs you are taking as they can influence your bloods tests.

I'm not a medical doctor.

But, if you feel fine, don't sweat it.

Just went through close to $10,000.00 worth (Insured) of test because my

blood numbers were off and not significantly. With that said,

I'd try to find somebody qualified in your area with UC.

I feel for you.

In my estimation, in theory UC is just an intestinal allergy syndrome,

Log what you eat because you'll forget the look at the log and say,

"it was the lower quality pasta from a supermarket."

What is your age range? You're lucky you can still run with UC.

You should go see your doctor with your neuthros at 1.3. You run a risk of lethal infection.

anon. wrote:

I'm not a medical doctor.

But, if you feel fine, don't sweat it.

Just went through close to $10,000.00 worth (Insured) of test because my

blood numbers were off and not significantly. With that said,

I'd try to find somebody qualified in your area with UC.

I feel for you.

In my estimation, in theory UC is just an intestinal allergy syndrome,

Log what you eat because you'll forget the look at the log and say,

"it was the lower quality pasta from a supermarket."

What is your age range? You're lucky you can still run with UC.

Thanks, appreciate that. It's not been easy to run with this condition, at worst times I had to stop 5-10 times during my runs. I am 33, dx with UC 3 years ago, hospitalized in Sep 2016 (had significant bleeding). After that I approached my condition as scientifically as possible, reading all the bits I could. Through experiments I came to low-FODMAP vegetarian diet (no sugar, no milk, no meat etc) -- this is what seems to work for me but it's damn restricting and some minerals (iron) is pretty hard to uptake (iron supplements cause major GI issues). I was pretty much in remission till April when was hospitalized because of other health issue. In hospital they crammed me with NSAIDs which set off a flare. After that been struggling to hold things together. Last month it seemed that things went better finally until I made that blood test.

Btw what is your estimation theory about UC? I am open to all the info I could get. I have tried many things but major helpers has been diet and rest.

Semiler wrote:You should go see your doctor with your neuthros at 1.3. You run a risk of lethal infection.

Latest result is 2.2 (just 4 days later).Actually I have tested Neuthros as low as 1.2. My GI doc did not pay much attention to these numbers but I will ask her next visit

Actually I am more interested in what could have caused such sharp decline in RBC, HCT, HGB in just 4 days time span. Maybe someone has some medical background that has seen such variations in short span.

Brain transplant wrote:

You have an autoimmune disease. You are at risk for many issues.

Be smart. Make sure vitamin d3 is a supplement you take.

Not sure what treatment drugs you are taking as they can influence your bloods tests.

D3 is one of supplememts I take and monitor each month.

I am 5-ASA, been on them since dx. I monitor blood markers each month, never seen such sharp declines before but usually I test only once per month

guywithuc wrote:

Semiler wrote:You should go see your doctor with your neuthros at 1.3. You run a risk of lethal infection.

Actually I am more interested in what could have caused such sharp decline in RBC, HCT, HGB in just 4 days time span. Maybe someone has some medical background that has seen such variations in short span.

Your RBC volume didn't go down, just the percentage, because your plasma volume went UP.

Are you taking any herbs or tinctures?

Those can affect blood levels (distort) to

where it put a Doctor in reactionary mode.

So, just sayin'.

Unless you've been bitten by a vampire, you alright, mate.

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