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Monday, April 9, 2012

9 Month Post-Op Update! Lab results, ultrasounds, oh my!

A BIG NSV (non scale victory)!!!
**Only ONE area (of three pages of labwork), was "out of range" --- HDL (the good cholesterol)**

Area of Concern                    Labs from 4/1/11                   3/14/12 (8.5 months postop)

Fasting Glucose                             80                                                        75 (yeah!)
LDL (bad cholesterol)                  146                                                       116 (yeah!)
HDL (good cholesterol)                 28                                                         37 (boo!)
Total Cholesterol                           185                                                       171 (yeah!)
TSH                                              1.90                                                      2.87 (boo!)


  • Vitamins D and B12 are both normal, but I do have to continue to take 50,000 IU once/week to keep the D level up.  Iron level is good!
  • I had an ultrasound of my thyroid to check the size of the nodule that was there prior.  It is still there (0.6 mm) but has not increased in size.  Good!
  • Another ultrasound - this one was of my nether lady parts - the ovarian cyst that was "watch and see" is gone.  No gyn concerns at all.  Good!

What's changing?
-start taking fish oil to help the HDL get to a higher number
-increase dose of thyroid medication to get TSH down to 1.0

1 comment:

  1. Great news!!! I'm excited to go back and find out how much my levels have changed in a year.

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