Haemoglobin readings

[jankar]

My haemoglobin readings are 109 from a range of 115 - 160.  Does this equate to a reading of 10.9?  I see the USA readings are in single/double figures rather than in the hundreds like mine.

[Peach803]

Reading about your 'experience'...feeling 'like a granny', you know, I've sort of been like that since 1986, when I hurt by back, it was the worst pain ever...worse than childbirth, and I've sort of dealt with some version of 'walking like a granny'...ever since.  I stopped working at age 42, when I just couldn't do it anymore...sitting at a desk on a computer, just didn't fit me any longer, and my surgeon says, you need to stop...so, I did.

I laugh when my daughter says, "Mom, you're really going slow"...I say "I've got this speed, and one slower...take your pick!"...so 'I feel your pain grl'.

I'm thinking that with my experience all these years, this new 'thing', may not seem o new.  I have no idea what to expect, but from what everybody seems to say, I better get ready "for a bumpy ride".

There's this thing I saw in a catalog, I sort of 'relate' to waht it says:  "Motto T Live By"  Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arrivinf safely in an attractive ad well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, latte` in the other, body throughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO, what a ride!"  Take time to smile...walk slowly [all you want], and don't bend over...you might end up...up-ended.  Hugs

[jankar]

The handrail thing - I am starting to walk around like a 101 year old granny - the slower I go, the further I can go without becoming breathless.  Interesting how the body and brain learns to compensate for things - I still bend over though without thinking - get dizzy - why did I do that - I should know better!

My bloods have been at 10.9 for about a month - just had another today so will see how they are next week.  Looks like they are going slowly.

More good days and less c88p days!  There does not seem to be really any rhyme or reason to it - it is what it is.

[jankar]

thanks epiphany - all make sense now!

[epiphiny]

Actually I got such a shock this morning when I realised I had run up the stairs instead of dragging myself up via the handrail I had to ring the clinic to check on my results cos I thought my Hb must have gone up or the meds had stopped working!  Actually the result is lower than last months. It's odd how one can have great days and then completely c**p days.

10.7 (107) is pretty good by the way, it's when it gets under 10 that they start to think about lowering the Riba dose.  It's not how low it is (when in the 10s) but rather how quickly you dropped to that level.

[epiphiny]

Yes, that's right.  Mine come back expressed with a point eg my friday result is 10.4 which could also be recorded as 104.  I think it's lab to lab rather than country to country.  Either way it's dang confusing!