Thursday, January 28, 2010

Fell Asleep & Sick

I do not feel very good.

I am hoping I didn't miss a call about a UA, because I was going to call and then I fell asleep without wanting to.

I'm so tired, even though I took a walk, I think I need to get hooked up with something at a medical place. I read you cannot correct low iron after it's low, with food, and I've been eating tons of iron anyway

Two times this week I forgot to call to see if I had one, because I fell asleep not wanting to. I just did it again.

Then, I tried to look up the time to do it anyway, and the time came up in military time, which I did not switch it to.

Right before falling asleep I thought, "Maybe Yonkers." I thought, "Maybe Shirley is from Yonkers." and boom, I was out.

I don't feel sick as in flu, just so tired, and not able to stay awake which isn't normal for me.

Oh, I just remembered I did call, and didn't have any UAs. I forgot. I do think there is something wrong with me but since it's exhaustion and I showed up anemic when I haven't been for years, I think it's anemia.

I've fallen asleep almost every day this week, several times without wanting to or trying to.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You sound like you have depression, not anemia...for someone who does alot of online research...you should research depression...

Symptoms of Depression: The severity and types of symptoms of depression vary from person to person. Typical symptoms include feelings of sadness, anxiety, and despair that do not go away. Other feelings may include hopelessness, guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, and anger and irritability. People with depression may also experience a loss in interest in activities they once enjoyed, chronic fatigue, trouble focusing, and difficulties with memory or in making decisions. Sleep abnormalities may also occur, such as insomnia or a desire to sleep all the time. Suicidal thoughts or attempts at committing suicidal may also be experienced. Pain is also associated with depression. The two are connected closely because the mood and pain perception centers are both located in the same areas of the brain. Both chronic pain and depression can deplete the body's sores of endorphins and other neurochemical that regulate mood and sensation and result in an exacerbation of the other condition. Seventy-five percent of patients with depression have complaints of physical symptoms, especially pain. In addition, depression occurs in about 30% of patients with pain, and anyone in pain can experience some level of mood change, according to the National Pain Foundation.
Depression also often goes hand in hand with other conditions, such as anxiety disorder and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Only a thorough evaluation by a qualified health care professional can determine what is causing your particular symptoms.

Mama said...

Dear Anonymous,

I DO have anemia, because I was recently tested when I tried to give blood for the Red Cross. I also have a history of anemia, since a teenager, but in the last couple of years at least, whenever I've had blood taken, the iron has been fine and it's been other weird things that are off, if anything, like alkaline phosphate, potassium, and glucose, all being abnormally low. I haven't had low iron in a long time.

What surprises me, is that I have it when I eat a LOT of iron rich foods.

I researched hemophilia because on the East Coast, they felt I should get a work up for this, based on my medical history and record of hemmorhage.

Since I may have this, and have possibly passed the genes onto my son, I want to be tested because if I'm a carrier, then he is possibly, and there are things which could be done to prevent him from having problems.

I don't get bloody noses, per se, but often, bloody mucous, and I've hemmoraghed with injuries, childbirth, and miscarriage, beyond what's normal, and then I've also had osteochondritis dissecans, which might also be a cause. My mother even wrote to me saying I "bruised easily" as a child, which is another symptom.

I don't feel hopeless, guilt, worthless, or anything besides what is normal for the situation I'm in and the corruption I've been having to deal with.

On the other hand, sure, maybe I'm depressed. ? I don't know why people are glad to say I might be depressed but no one wanted to agree that I had anxiety over this whole thing. Maybe because anxiety sounds too much like stress? I don't know.

At any rate, I've been falling asleep without wanting to, and missed a couple of appointments, and while depression may affect memory somewhat, so can hemophilia or anemia, because your red blood cells are not getting oxygenated and therefore there is not as much oxygen going to the brain, literally.

Sure, I'm open to both ideas and I do believe I have mild PTSD because of the way this case has been handled, and I'm more than willing to get it all checked out.

But as for having anemia, I DO already have paper documentation that I do have it and I would guess, if I'm going off of being tired, it's been for a few weeks at least.

I know I need to be tested for hemophilia too, because the bleeding can be internal and needs treatment, which may be why I have bloody mucous or why I was literally spitting up blood from my chest cavity but without any flu or bronchitis a couple months ago.

That was the first time I ever spit up blood. It was also the night that I burst into tears over what people in Wenatchee have done to me and my son here, and my own family, and I wiped my tears on the window that faces Wenatchee.