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Jos.-:
Hi all,

Today I visited after four weeks my (new) internist. After the first exploratory exchanges of politeness he congratulated me with my blood reports of Monday May 11. 'The Exjade did its work, your serum ferritin came down from 920 µg/L on April 4 to 637 µg/L.'

He looked a bit surprised when I told him that I didn't start taking Exjade which was prescribed by my former internist on April 17. Just keeping to my diet and starting to use IP 6 ('huh?') But he was quite straight forward when I told him that I decided to not take Exjade until there were any results of an iron study with at least an MRI of my liver. (Ferriscan and T2* aren't possible yet in The Netherlands.) He said that this was a right decision with such a rather low level of serum ferritin. On August 20 I'm going to have my intake at the expertise center for Sickle Cell Anaemia and Thalassemia in Rotterdam. Then we're going to learn if there's any iron deposition on my organs.

Because of my very good blood pressure and great blood reports regarding diabetes and cholesteremia I could also persuade him to do an experiment completely stopping medication (i.e. metformin & atorvastatin). We'll see the results of that action  halfway September.

Thanks again Andy and others for your advice regarding not taking Exjade in the blind and the IP6.

Just to let you that I'm happy!

Regards,

Jos.-

Andy Battaglia:
I am also quite happy that you have continued to avoid taking drugs for what looks like a marginal problem.  :clap

I hope further testing confirms that you are not carrying any serious iron load.

Manal:
I am happy to know these results. Please keep on taking IP6 until the ferritn is normal and even onward, it is a good antioxidant

happy for you :wink

manal

nice friend:
Good decision Jos, i m happy for you .. :goodluck       Best of  luck for future

Best Regarrds
Umair

Jos.-:
Thanks for the kind words.

Manal, of course I'll keep on taking IP6 and I'll stick to my diet, walking the dog, cycling twice a day for 20 minutes and using my nordic walking sticks as much as possible in the weekends!

Jos.-

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