BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

[brigid]

I've been tired my entire life and I've also been anemic my entire life and POSSIBLY there is some kind of connection there, I don't know, and apparently none of the doctors I've seen know.

Anyway, due to A Catastrophic Health Thing that occurred a year ago I had to see a blood doctor. She stole FOURTEEN VIALS OF BLOOD from me. You know that little plastic carrier that has a space for each vial to slot in to, that they can hook onto the arm of the chair they strap you in to? She needed two of those.

FOURTEEN VIALS.

Look man, I only have so much blood in me and they took like half of it.

Extensive testing on half my blood revealed that:

1) my blood is good blood

2) I don't have enough blood

My blood VOLUME is fine, as far as I know, but I'm anemic and all out of iron.

So I'm taking an iron supplement and if that doesn't work... I get to enjoy baby's first iron infusion.

I've taken iron supplements before and I've never had a problem tolerating them. Instead they just... don't... seem to do anything. So we'll see what my next blood step is.

I've got a bad case of rustyguts or something, I don't even know.

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

In my experience anemia DOES lead to tiredness.

So hoping you get some answers and effective treatment soon!!!

[jenk]

I'm low on iron but also I can get low on red blood cells, so I take both iron and B12. Where!