Glucose is Great, Iron not so much

I received the results back from my Glucose test today. A few days late, but at least I passed the test. I took the test on Thursday and usually the results will be in by the next morning. Unfortunately for me the office was closed that Friday so they said I would get a call if something was wrong from the on-call person, but otherwise I would hear Monday morning. I didn't hear anything on Friday so I assumed I was in the clear but I definitely wanted to know for sure. Especially with this office as my blood results have not always returned accurate and every time I have had blood taken it has had to be re-done. But since I had not heard anything by Monday at noon I decided to call the office and find out on my own. I reached the nurse and she said she would call me back with the results as soon as she grabbed my chart. Well I didn't hear back from her until this morning. She said that I passed my Glucose test with flying colors, but that my hematacrite (Sp?) was low. I now get to take slow release Iron pills twice a day in addition to my pre-natal and folic acid pills. But I can't take them together as it will be very hard on my stomach and I have to take them all with food. Hopefully nothing else will be added to the list of pills as I am running out of meal times and don't really want to be eating all day long.

The low Iron makes sense to me and hopefully explains why I have been so tired all the time and the couple of episodes of dizziness and lightheadedness that have occurred in the last month. I might be able to regain some of my energy now that I am on the iron pills - at least let’s hope so!