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Old 01-05-2013, 01:48 PM
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Butterfly,

It seems that she is responding to the symptoms you describe. For example, the Lyme disease and the Epstein Barr and B12 could relate to tiredness. I am not up to date on Magnesium.
Short explanation of the blood order:


CBC, WBC -- this is standard
comprehensive metabolic panel -- this is standard as well
cortisol, free --- this will check your cortisol / adrenal glands
vitamin B-12 --- doctors might be checking more than they used to. . . . not sure. . . it might be standard
Epstein-barr virus early antigen antibody --- lots of people have the Epstein-barr marker in their body so it is not a good test but maybe the nurse practitioner is looking to see why you have low energy
ferritin (which I think is iron, b/c I have been anemic in the past) --- Iron as you say
free T4 -- Thyroid
free T3 -- Thyroid
lipid panel -- Cholesterol
Lyme western blot test -- Lyme disease ( you can ask why she is checking for this.)
magnesium level -- Magnesium ( you can ask why she is checking for this.)
Molecular isolation or extraction, each nucleic acid type(i.e. DNA or RNA) MTHFR -- according to this link this has to do with B12
http://labtestsonline.org/understand...mthfr/tab/test
reverse triiodothyronine -- Thyroid
thyroid peroxidase (TPO) antibodies --- Thyroid
TSH -- Thyroid
urinanalysis
vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy --- It is good that she is checking Vitamin D.


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