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Old 02-14-2009, 07:35 PM
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The ferritin test is very important to look at inconjunction with the total iron and TIBC test. It was simply put to me that the ferritin shows your stores and the TIBC shows how well you use them. The higher the TIBC the worse you are.
Where does Transferrin, Serum fit into all of this. From what the doc's assistant told me, the only test he did was transferrin, serum..in July it was 256, now it's 317. I thought he was going to do another ferritin level, but he didnt.

This is all very confusing!!!
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