Anyone deal wiith issues with Anemia?

[imported_Shanna]

I'm debating on if I should go to the doc or not?

If you have issues, post about it here. I would like to hear what other people deal with.

The low blood pressure is making me crazy.

Two days in a row I have napped.

I don't nap.

[kaedesmom]

I have had anemia for years, Shanna. I get B12 shots every two weeks, take iron every day but I still have to get blood transfusions or iron transfusions a couple of times a year. You need to go to a doc. It's a simple blood test. All you will probably have to do is take iron supplements. I don't absorb them well, so I have to get transfusions but you shouldn't have to. Believe me you will feel better.

[boonesmom]

I have been anemic off and on for over 20 years. Intially it was really bad and I had to get iron shots. Now I just take a multi vitamin with iron and when I start to feel run down I take an iron pill.
You probably want to see a doctor because anemia can become really dangerous if your iron level gets too low. The downside to iron pills is they give me a stomachache and your poops are pretty bad. sorry that may be too much info but it's the truth !!!!

[imported_kiddsmom]

You need to find out what type of anemia you have. Sometimes iron pills won't do the job.

[Jinx]

*raises hand* didn't know till i was almost dead apparently.

i napped all the time. sometimes for a day or two i only had the energy to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. you need to get a blood panel done. if you need iron supplements there isn't enough in geritol to do it. that's the only experience i have with it.

[Linda1]

My MIL did. She would get blood transfusions several times a year and other treatments. They put a port in her upper chest to treat her easily. After several years of this, she had a colonoscopy and they found a very small ulcered area that was bleeding. They removed the section and she no longer needed any type of treatment.

[imported_Shanna]

Okay.. that is good info. You have convinced me to make an appt. with my doc.

It has gotten to where I am ULTRA DIZZY and feel certain I am going to drop.
I am having some pain in the middle of my chest. (angina I presume)
I just had Aunt Flo visit, so I think that is what sent the symptoms I was having over the top.

Since I haven't been eating much... I know I have done this to myself. I found that most of what little I have been eating or drinking prohibits the absorption of iron.

[imported_kiddsmom]

Pain the chest is not always angina, not always cardiac related.

[Champsmom]

Bean, anemia can cause shortness of breath, rapid or irregular hearbeat, and chest pains. So your pain may not be heart related.

[labby]

Regardless, get your ass to the doctor.