They can check your blood. Here are some tests to check your levels. Ask your doctor about them.
Serum iron test, which measures the amount of iron in the blood
Transferrin test, which measures transferrin, a protein that moves iron throughout the body
Total iron-binding capacity (TIBC), which measures how well iron attaches to transferrin and other proteins in the blood
Ferritin blood test, which measures how much iron is stored in the body

Get a Ferritin Blood Test. It’s the amount of circulating reserve iron in your blood.

There are Plant Based Iron that are safer to take but if your MM is very active, you may not be producing enough healthy blood cells to keep your iron levels normal

My oncologist checks my Iron frequently. It’s always just below normal. However, she doesn’t want me take any iron supplements.

Ask your oncologist why you don’t have that information. Be sure to always get a printout of your labs. Ask if they can recommend a book or booklet that explains the lab results.
Use a high-lighter to emphasize the information.
Get booklets that explain your MM. Get the name of the TYPE of MM that you have. Learn all you can about your disease.
Ask questions at your oncologist meetings. Write down the answers.
This disease is overwhelming. Take the information in the amount that you can handle. You will have good days and rough days. Just remember to take care of yourself FIRST and if others don’t understand or act like you could do your regular activities…. Hand them the information that you wrote down at your Dr.’s Appointment! Have them read it out loud. Then make sure you get some rest.
Pamper yourself when you can. Let the “small dramas” go because they are not important enough to take part of. There’s more important things in life than the small things. 98% of life is small things. But most importantly of all-make memories. Do what you have always wanted to do while you can. Take photos (real pictures) and date them, notate where and with whom you are with. Put them in an album for the start or continuing of heritage. Make copies for each of your children and special ones for any grandchildren.
We are all on this journey together, and our paths are all different. We support each other and try our best to be informative as much as we can. None of us are experts at this, it is our first experience with it. But we all are learning.
Good luck and God Bless,
“Teece”

@A MyMyelomaTeam Member
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