Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Right.

I've spent the past month or so getting progressively more and more lethargic and tired and unable to do things like ride my bike both to and from work on a consistent basis. The bike needing to be fixed did have something to do with it, and yet I still couldn't make it both ways twice/week like I could at the start of term.

Then I remembered something: We haven't had iron supplements in this house in over a month. We'd run out, and it was on the list of things to get, and we kept forgetting to buy it.

I finally went and got some last night, so lets hope that I improve over the next week or so. Wish me luck!

7 comments:

  1. Good luck!
    Bah. What is *with* all this iron deficiency? It makes no sense to me that women en masse simply *are* iron deficient.

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  2. I'm not sure what you mean, but I've only rarely had iron levels be normal, and that was when I was taking iron supplements daily and having regular steak :-p Aside from that, they've generally been below normal.

    I think it has something to do with regular blood loss :-p

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  3. Good luck Quincy! Hopefully the iron works :)

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  4. Or maybe you have some chronic undiagnosed condition, and the regular blood loss is just an excuse not to look for the real cause?

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  5. Sabik, that is also possible :-p Regular blood loss is, I'm afraid, the more likely cause. So I'm going with that for now :-p

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  6. What I mean is - if menstruation is a standard thing that happens to all healthy pre-menopausal women, then why would iron deficiency be so freaking common? It makes no sense to me that a period would cause iron deficiency. The body would compensate somehow for the blood loss, wouldn't it? Persistent fatigue isn't a great quality to have, evolutionarily speaking.

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  7. Evolution only really cares about whether you survive long enough to breed. Iron deficiency won't kill you, especially if you're protected from wild animals by your tribe. Also, a long time ago we spent a lot less time having periods because we spent a lot more time being pregnant and were fatigued for that reason anyway, so we still needed protecting :-p

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