(F19), May be TL;DR,
So I was put on iron pills for my anaemia 3 years ago when i was 16, and in the UK you can’t pick up your own prescriptions if you’re a minor, it has to be an adult. But my parent just stopped picking them up after about the second month, we both never really thought about it and it wasn’t heavily affecting my life at this point so i just didn’t bother.
3 years later, and now i’m pretty sure it’s affecting my life, the main thing affecting my life right now actually. According to Google (not the best source for health info ik), some websites say the symptoms i’m having are iron deficiency-related, others don’t say anything on them at all.
But i started noticing more in the past couple of weeks or so especially, that i just feel ill for no apparent reason, at first i didn’t jump to iron deficiency, because it felt like i had a cold without any of the actual cold symptoms except malaise (generally feeling unwell), and that is purely what this feeling is, i expected to wake up with a cold multiple times but it just never happened, yet this feeling persists. and it comes and goes i suppose but it does happen everyday, usually a couple hours after i’ve been awake and it will either persist into the evening, or go away a bit.
i have the general symptoms, but to much greater severity to when i was checked for anaemia in 2021. back then i felt fine, wasn’t pale, never had a blue tinge to the whites of my eyes, never had the pale lower eyelid. and now i have all of these, and more.
another weird one is eye strain, again, no idea if this is actually related to anaemia, but this problem has occurred alongside the feeling of illness. i dont need glasses, yet i find myself feeling really sick when i’m doing my art (for context, i do realism, which requires a lot of detail and so my face needs to be close to the page), but yeah i feel sick and then realise my eyes hurt as if i’ve been staring at the sun for 20 minutes. and this happens with phones, with anything that is either bright or too close to my face.
and i already knew brain fog was a symptom of iron deficiency but it’s been so so much worse recently where it can become actually frustrating to speak to people because i just constantly fumble my words, don’t know my words, or i cant form a simple sentence.
again i know this one is an anemia symptom too, but likewise with the brain fog, it suddenly (like within the last week) became very obvious. Completely exhausted and fatigued all the time. this was a tricky one for me to notice at first because i’m also on ADHD medication which are stimulants, so it wakes me up anyway regardless. But last week, my boyfriend was around and i decided to not take my med for a couple days, and quite literally, all i did on one of the days was sleep. my boyfriend said i was only awake for about 6 hours, AND i still somehow slept the whole night too. and then when he left, i began taking my medication again and still found myself nodding off and falling asleep unintentionally, or also completely intentionally because i’m just so damn tired all the time.
i havent rang the doctors yet because i’m scared of them and i hate phone calls, but it’s also starting to heavily interfere with my life and i just don’t know how long i can leave it for. submitted by /u/Open-Currency-7397
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So I was put on iron pills for my anaemia 3 years ago when i was 16, and in the UK you can’t pick up your own prescriptions if you’re a minor, it has to be an adult. But my parent just stopped picking them up after about the second month, we both never really thought about it and it wasn’t heavily affecting my life at this point so i just didn’t bother.
3 years later, and now i’m pretty sure it’s affecting my life, the main thing affecting my life right now actually. According to Google (not the best source for health info ik), some websites say the symptoms i’m having are iron deficiency-related, others don’t say anything on them at all.
But i started noticing more in the past couple of weeks or so especially, that i just feel ill for no apparent reason, at first i didn’t jump to iron deficiency, because it felt like i had a cold without any of the actual cold symptoms except malaise (generally feeling unwell), and that is purely what this feeling is, i expected to wake up with a cold multiple times but it just never happened, yet this feeling persists. and it comes and goes i suppose but it does happen everyday, usually a couple hours after i’ve been awake and it will either persist into the evening, or go away a bit.
i have the general symptoms, but to much greater severity to when i was checked for anaemia in 2021. back then i felt fine, wasn’t pale, never had a blue tinge to the whites of my eyes, never had the pale lower eyelid. and now i have all of these, and more.
another weird one is eye strain, again, no idea if this is actually related to anaemia, but this problem has occurred alongside the feeling of illness. i dont need glasses, yet i find myself feeling really sick when i’m doing my art (for context, i do realism, which requires a lot of detail and so my face needs to be close to the page), but yeah i feel sick and then realise my eyes hurt as if i’ve been staring at the sun for 20 minutes. and this happens with phones, with anything that is either bright or too close to my face.
and i already knew brain fog was a symptom of iron deficiency but it’s been so so much worse recently where it can become actually frustrating to speak to people because i just constantly fumble my words, don’t know my words, or i cant form a simple sentence.
again i know this one is an anemia symptom too, but likewise with the brain fog, it suddenly (like within the last week) became very obvious. Completely exhausted and fatigued all the time. this was a tricky one for me to notice at first because i’m also on ADHD medication which are stimulants, so it wakes me up anyway regardless. But last week, my boyfriend was around and i decided to not take my med for a couple days, and quite literally, all i did on one of the days was sleep. my boyfriend said i was only awake for about 6 hours, AND i still somehow slept the whole night too. and then when he left, i began taking my medication again and still found myself nodding off and falling asleep unintentionally, or also completely intentionally because i’m just so damn tired all the time.
i havent rang the doctors yet because i’m scared of them and i hate phone calls, but it’s also starting to heavily interfere with my life and i just don’t know how long i can leave it for. submitted by /u/Open-Currency-7397
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