It's the Iron
I recognize this draggy feeling I've been fighting with for about a week or so now. My iron levels must have started crashing again--a 3 month long period can do that to you. I've found the flier for the company that I bought my iron supplements from before and will soon be ordering more. In the meantime, I will be a lot more tired and not
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I was really surprised the way my doctor chose to treat it because, the way he was talking, I didn't even have anything left in my bone marrow, and, from what I'd heard, that usually meant hospitalization. But this guy was also one of the best doctors I've ever had--he talked to me about choices in treatment and let me weight in, in most cases anyway. He just put me on 170 some odd mgs a day when this happened, which is the way I would have preferred to go since I was a single mom and have a problem with needles. ;)
As for this round, I REALLY should have recognized it last week, but I think I persist in trying to be the stereotypical dumb blonde sometimes despite being a brunette. That, and this crap really does sneak up on you. At first, you're just tired. And we had so much stress going on before that that tired made sense. By the time you realize there's an issue, it's more than being "just" tired, it's down to having trouble functioning. The hope is that I've caught it before it's really serious. I don;t want to spend the next 5 years or so just trying to get back to normal and figuring out if normal can be maintained. It was a bitch enough the first time.
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