Drmark, I'll make this my last question for a good while, so as not to hinder others from getting answers. You mention pernicious anema recently. I may have been looking in the wrong direction as far as my fatigue symptom. I'm a Hashi's patient but my Dr. wouldn't go over my CBcs much. Following are the results, I'll list only the questionable ones. March-2003: WBC "3.7"(range 4.5-11.0), March 2004: WBC "4.0"(range 4.5-11.0), HGB "14.2"(range 14.0-18.0), MCHC 32.7(range 33.0-37.0 flagged low), Hemocrite 43.1(range 42.0-52.0), MCH 27.6(range 27.0-31.0 Near Borderline low), Eos 4(range 1-3 flagged high).
After the preceeding results I had, I took liquide Geritol, then retested in 4-months. The labs only raised very slightly, for example, my HGB, went from 14.2 to 14.5 and the others also only changed by a couple of tenths (WBC 14.2).
I looked at a test my age-69 dad had recently and his HGB was 16.5, mine at age-40 was much lower (now age-42). Could this have been onset of pernicious anemia. I had been on thyroid med, nearly a year when the test was done. Would the best diagnostic test for me now, be a B-12 level and possibly another CBC? I read that pernicious anemia can lower WBC and mine was low on three diff. tests? Thanks Much.