Thank you! I am wavering between optimistic and resentful. I hate that there is no one to whom I can turn to get a do-over of all these years lost to sickness.
My first bout of IDA was when I was still on active duty in the Army, and for 23 years since, every time I had iron or vitamin deficiencies, the military and VA docs just blamed it on ... menstruation. Ignore the fact that while I was on active duty, hundreds of other women were eating the exact same food from the exact same chow halls, bleeding every month just like me ... WITHOUT becoming anemic. Ignore the fact that my docs stopped my cycle >8yrs ago to prevent cyclic migraines - can't blame menstruation when it doesn't happen. Curveball - since my TSH hit 13.67 in 2002, I've regularly asked for thyroid Ab tests, and regularly been told there's no reason to run them
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My first bout of IDA was when I was still on active duty in the Army, and for 23 years since, every time I had iron or vitamin deficiencies, the military and VA docs just blamed it on ... menstruation. Ignore the fact that while I was on active duty, hundreds of other women were eating the exact same food from the exact same chow halls, bleeding every month just like me ... WITHOUT becoming anemic. Ignore the fact that my docs stopped my cycle >8yrs ago to prevent cyclic migraines - can't blame menstruation when it doesn't happen. Curveball - since my TSH hit 13.67 in 2002, I've regularly asked for thyroid Ab tests, and regularly been told there's no reason to run them ( ... )
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