Did someone turn up the gravity? The joys of iron deficiency.

[alee_grrl]

So apparently the reason I've been growing increasingly more fatigued (the sort of fatigued where it feels like someone turned up the gravity a notch, or turned the air into molasses). Movement was getting more difficult, concentration fuzzier, and I was getting more and more irritable. When I last went in to get my thyroid checked (a bit over a month ago I think), my pcp had also ordered my iron checked. I shared those results with my lyme doctor, who noted I was slightly anemic and ordered another check to be done around the start of September. I finally managed to find time (and motivational spoons) to go in on Saturday. The results came in today, and I am not anemic but I am iron deficient (I didn't realize you could be one but not the other). So I'm to start taking iron supplements twice a day. They have to be taken two hours away from the antibiotics, and far away from the thyroid supplement (so afternoon and bedtime). Most likely cause it that I had started using NSAIDs (like ibuprofen and aspirin) again having forgotten for a time that I am not supposed to take those. Combined with the effexor they make me more likely to bruise and have iron deficiency issues. ::headdesk::

Things are quiet enough at work that I was able to leave a little early and will be able to take tomorrow off. My bosses are super wonderful, and very understanding of the health issues. Of course I appreciate that understanding and put my all into being a good employee. So it works out for all of us. This gives me a three day weekend to get my iron levels back up and hopefully get back towards functional.

Fe: a haikai

limbs slow and heavy
thought fragments bleed through cotton
stuffed brain, bruised bags shine

against pale skin. Not zombie.
Just iron deficient.

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[alee_grrl]

Thanks! The pill schedule is annoying as hell.

::gentle hugs back::