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Blood test results question -Iron saturation, Ferritin, Lymphocytes

A few weeks ago I had a blood test showing low hemoglobin, hemactocrit and RBCs.  
I thought it was Iron deficiency anemia but my internist said my reticulocyte count should have been higher if that was the case.  It was in the somewhat lower range of normal.

This most recent test, my levels of Hemoglobin, hemactocrit and RBC all went into the very bottom range of normal.
MCHC is also in low end of normal. MCV normal.

Reticulocyte count went up slightly (still in the bottom half of normal).

My lymphocytes went just below normal. Last time they were on the low end of normal.  This time also neutrophils are somewhat higher end of normal. (platelets and WBC are normal)

Ferritin says it is in the range of "depleted iron stores".

Iron saturation level is above normal.

Iron is in the normal range (high end).
TIBC is normal.

RBC Folate and B12 were both above normal (the folate was very high)

Can anyone help me interpret this?  The doctor had said, before this second test, that he thought that I was either losing blood somewhere or I was not making enough blood.  
My next followup with him is a few weeks from now (I got these results printed by my family doctors office because I was curious).

I've also been having some aching and joint pain just in the last couple of weeks, aside from fatigue and lightheadedness.

Thank you.
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