Peri and recently diagnosed with aneania. worried!!!
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Hi ladies
Just wanted some reassurance. Ive ben in perimenopause eight years and had every symptom there is to have!!!
I have just been tokd im aneamic by my gp and put on iron tablets. I did have a two week long period a couple weeks ago so they are attributing it to that.
Ive suffered severe health anxiety in perimenopause and this is causing my anxiety to soar. My concern is this ive had very heavy flloding periods the last couole years then none for two months. Then they come back again you get the picture. Why hasnt aneamia showed up before when periods were heavy then. Why now?
Of course my mind is working over time thinking the worst. I hate being like this befire peri I never worried all the time(.
Ive been feeling very unwell too so not helping.
Am I just over reacting again!!!
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stephanie04277 michelle50768
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michelle50768 stephanie04277
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I only started iron yesterday but im so breathless and fatigued also tearful.
You have reassured me though. I dont know what I would do without this site and you ladies.
God bless you abd thanks again.
Oh just wondered how long for iron to kick in x
toffeecushion stephanie04277
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toffeecushion michelle50768
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Chris1230 michelle50768
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One thing doctors don't routinely test for that can give you a heads up to this long before you actually become anemic is your "FERRITIN" level. Ferritin is the amount of iron that your body has stored, and it is a much better predictor of how well your iron status is than some of the other tests. It will show shortages before you become anemic. A good ferritin number for a menstruating female is about 50 (althought the normal range is lower). Mine was about 5 and then I wasn't anemic at that point. Once that depletes, you go anemic. My friend, who is 50 and having a period every 3 weeks has not yet hit anemia but she has no ferritin. Iron supplements are quickly resolving that.
I certainly understand the health anxiety. I am having it about my hot flashes. But anemia is normal in perimenopause. My mom told me she spent all of her 40s and early 50s being anemic. and it will make you feel awful. I felt FAR worse with mine than I ever did with my thyroid levels being off. It also made me have a lot of panic/anxiety feelings.
michelle50768 Chris1230
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Thanks again x
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ursulauc62 michelle50768
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The tests were all negative. I had panicked so much I really couldnt cope at all with Christmas and hid upstairs most of the time - all for nothing.
My stomach also really couldnt tolerate the iron tablets, and gave me awful IBS, which I am prone to anyway. I have finallly managed to tolerate taking just one a day, instead of the three I was diagnosed - ferrous fumarate, and my iron levels are getting better. Maybe you werent tested for anaemia before when your periods were heavy. I think sometimes doctors just think - Oh right - better do this test now, after not doing it for ages. I dont know, just a theory.
I have also just come through a phase which lasted about 4 months of apalling anxiety which really crippled me, and I could barely leave the house - still am quite agrophobic. Its eased off now - I am so grateful - I'm not totally sure why - but I do find that distracting myself with getting really interested in a particular subject and reading alot helped. I was also on HRT, which I decided to come off recently, and feel better for it.
michelle50768 ursulauc62
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Ive spent the whole day so exhausted. Ive been prescribed the same iron pills as you but two a day but like you have stomach issues so only taking one. Im hoping they will kick in soon.
God bless x
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