Chronic Illness on Yik Yak | now that i know drs just aren’t diagnosing iron deficiency at all basically i mourn all of the energy women should’ve had to better their lives, protect themselves, fight back against oppression. so many precious hours wasted napping and saving energy

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Chronic Illness 11w

now that i know drs just aren’t diagnosing iron deficiency at all basically i mourn all of the energy women should’ve had to better their lives, protect themselves, fight back against oppression. so many precious hours wasted napping and saving energy

Anonymous 11w

i’ve been iron deficient for probably 20 years now due to celiac disease. that was the energy i needed to fight against DV and pursue legal action. but i was too tired. that was the energy i needed to properly mourn my parents death. but i was too tired to think. i was just barely getting by all my life and no dr cared even though the solution was obvious and easy. i went to the right drs. i got the right tests. and i tested iron deficient years ago and still no help from expensive drs

Anonymous 11w

i didn’t know that i had to be the one looking over all my tests and putting the pieces together. your brain and body doesn’t work without iron, without oxygen yet i was expected to be more intelligent and on top of it than drs. drs have failed women so badly. how many chronic illnesses are just iron deficiency? i thought i was going to be exhausted for the remainder of my life. i had no hope for the future. and all i needed were the right fucking pills.

Anonymous 11w

I know like 3 women who’ve been Dxd as iron deficient? What do you mean they don’t diagnose it at all?

Anonymous 11w

Anonymous 11w

these are all the disorders that people have gotten rid of by treating their iron deficiency. so many of these diseases effect women at a higher rate. and i think iron deficiency is a huge reason why. and it can be fixed. as someone who has been so fatigued to the point of excruciating pain, i couldn’t fathom how i was supposed to to enjoy life or have hope for the future. and now i know that all of these things can be helped if drs were up to date on current research about iron deficiency.

Anonymous 10w

what iron do you take

Anonymous

#1 11w

i’m in an iron deficiency support group where thousands of women have had their ferritin tested and told its normal when they’re iron deficient. the “normal” values for ferritin are 13-200 but anything under 100 is iron deficient. countless women i’ve seen so far are going neglected. i’m so happy for those 3 women though! they seem to be the exception in my experience. it’s not being talked about enough so i’m going to talk about it as much as i can.

Anonymous

#1 11w

my dr knew my ferritin was 26 for 3 whole years and that i have chronic fatigue that stops me from being able to work, live, or even walk at times. she recommended an iron supplement with extremely poor bioavailability that hasn’t raised my ferritin for 3 years.

Anonymous

#1 11w

the wild thing is that most of the women you know are likely iron deficient and only 3 have been diagnosed

Anonymous

OP 11w

Do you have reliable, peer reviewed sources for all of this? Do you really mean to insinuate that you can get rid of serious conditions like narcolepsy by increasing iron levels? And that most women have iron deficiency? If that’s true, why don’t most women have these problems?

Anonymous

#1 11w

these are peoples experiences from an iron deficiency support group with thousands of people in it!

Anonymous

#1 11w

Women are more likely to have iron deficiency, but I think it’s a bit much to say most women. Just more women than men.

Anonymous

OP 11w

So you don’t have any peer reviewed sources, it’s all circumstantial observations?

Anonymous

#3 10w

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