Sunday, March 14, 2010

Diagnosing Hemmorhagic Anemia

http://www.healthlog.org/conditions-illnesses/anemia/hemorrhagic-anemia.html

Here is an article which explains anemia is not a disease itself but the result of an underlying disease, disorder, or trauma. Anemia can be caused by nutritional deficiencies and lack of iron, which is not the case in my situation. I have a very good diet and eat red meat and get other forms of iron on a regular basis. It can also be sometimes caused by heavy menstrual bleeding, which is also not the case here. I haven't had unusual periods and if anything, a couple of them have been lighter, not heavier.

So then the only thing that is left is a blood disorder or anemia resulting from hemmorhage. Since I haven't been diagnosed with any blood disorder, the only possible cause of this anemia is from hemmorhage and I can point to a specific incident.

It wouldn't be hemmorhage from the miscarriage because that was too long ago, and it was corrected with blood transfusions and I was never anemic after that. I went many months with good iron--almost a whole year. However, if there is a trauma or internal bleeding, anemia will show up about 2-3 months or so after that incident, which is what happened in my case.

It's highly unlikely I would show anemic for the Red Cross, and then have a pint of blood more one week later at the WVC. The nurse said the Red Cross results were probably wrong. So a month later now, I've had bloodwork done again and I'm anemic. This matches what the Red Cross said, and regardless, they were setting aside my blood results from the rest of the batch for a reason. They didn't WANT my blood and someone must have had a reason why, to give me a different identifying number.

This anemia fits with what I described as an incident of abnormal internal bleeding. I had some bloody nose effects (not running, but when I blew) in the last couple of weeks, but that wouldn't cause anemia unless there was other internal bleeding that has gone unseen or undetected.

At the CWH, they took 4 vials of blood but I don't know what they did with all of them.

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