[ElainMoria]

Ask him for a complete metabolic panel including E and T BEFORE you start on your self med regime... Its important to know your OK for HRT and to have baseline labs... He should be able to order that right away if he's really interested in helping you...

While I was in the hospital (a couple weeks ago) they did several CBC's, a comprehensive metabolic panel, a basic metabolic panel, Hep C rna quant, Hiv 1, 2 and ab tests, GLYCOHEM, LIPID PANEL, CK/MB + troponin, B TYPE NAT PEP, mag and phos test, etc.. in fact I had three CBC's and two different Comprehensive metabolics done as well as two different basic metabolics. I had gone in for a suspected heart attack, they found some other Issues to look at, my anion gap is very low as well as my calcium levels and a cpl other things that suggested I might have had cirrhosis due to having hep c.. come to find out I don't have hep c.. or hiv, or anything else, I just have a cruddy diet and a latent TB infection that I'll be getting meds to get rid of prophylacticly. The other thing they were worried about was my platelet count, normal is 150k - 450k mine was 93k and ranged between 93k and 108k. Basically, other than my diet and the TB, I'm healthy as a horse. Diet wise, I have always struggled to remember to eat.. I have no hunger response at all so if I don't remember to eat, I might go several days without eating at all. So my body is on the edge of malnutrition and it's having an effect on me. I now have a program that pops up on my computer and reminds me to eat XD.

~Elain