Ferritin, iron studies and the fatigue question

My results improved slowly over eighteen months and the improvement was only visible because I had kept the earlier ones.

Bertie, answering your question directly rather than going round the houses.

Nothing here is medical advice and nobody in this circle is reading your results as a clinician. We are company for the reading.

What I underestimated was how much better the conversation went once I could name the tests I was asking about.

Something worth knowing: fasting or not fasting changed one of mine enough to matter, and nobody had told me which it needed.

The thing that helped most was having a second set six months later, because one set is a snapshot and two is a direction.

I read this twice. The second time was for the last paragraph.

My GP was happy to go through mine line by line when I asked, and I had assumed for years that this was not something you could ask for.