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.


M

Thank you so much Mari!

I am such a knucklehead. I typed it out myself, it says right there Vitamin B-12, but I still overlooked it. sheesh. Anyway, she asked if we go camping which we do. That is the only reason I can think of that she is checking for Lyme disease. She asked if I had every gotten bitten while camping. ha! Are you kidding me? Mosquitos mostly though I think.

I don't know why she's checking magnesium levels. I didn't see the orders until the receptionist printed them out when I checked out. The nurse practitioner had typed them into a computer while we were talking. I kind of wish she would have showed them to me before I walked out so that I could ask line by line, what's this, what's that. But you've done that for me. Thank you Mari!

Hi,

I am geeky enough to be bugged about not knowing why she is checking for magnesium.

I just found that low magnesium can be a symptom of Addison's Disease ( When the adrenal glands are not producing enough hormones.) . . . So she was looking to find out why you have low energy.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...cle/000378.htm


Some of us here take magnesium -- At the moment, I can't remember why exactly -- today was a difficult day for my brain.

Mari

AWESOME info!!!

I'm so grateful she's at least interested enough in my case to check into it! Thanks Mari!

Oh I forgot to say that magnesium is in a powdery stuff I take some nights called CALM. It has magnesium and is supposed to help you sleep but I can't take it every night or I get loose bowels (sorry if that's TMI) And I think it is supposed to help with restless leg syndrome. I don't have RLS, just going by what someone else told me.

Yeah, was getting the same results from the CALM. Then I found out on the board that I was taking it wrong. You have to use warm water like the instructions say. The warm water changes it to a form of Magnesium that is absorbable. The kind used with cold water mostly goes through the body -- waste of money unless you are taking it for that reason.

M

oh no Mari, warm? say it ain't so! eeewww! :stomping my feet like a 2 year old: I don't know if I could drink it warm. Thanks for letting me know what I've been doing wrong!