Dear Diary: What It Feels Like To Be Anemic Which I Am Not

in steemit •  7 years ago 

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This Gargoyle, I mean gorgeous best bathed today at midnight

There is a difference today when I take a bath and it doesn't matter if the weather is as cold as f@#^ or warm as long as there is running water I am as happy as a puppy. But when you are anemic it is hard to bathe even in a hot weather because you will surely get the chills and you will feel like wanting to put some mittens in the shower. Bathing is so hard that you just shiver all the way throughout the bathing process.

I remember having a vacation with my co-patients initiated by our nurses. My other co-patients just could not bear the cold which is not really cold that day as I enjoyed basking in the sun on the beach. They just given up the idea of swimming in the beach because they were anemic while I myself just had a blood transfusion prior to our trip at the beach.

But I like bathing and I bathe when I don't feel good as it makes me feel better after even in the years when I was anemic as a radish. But now things are different and I even prefer a cold shower and I do not feel that familiar shivering like I am having a hypothermia. That is the miracle that I am enjoying about maybe three years now because I am not anemic anymore as you can see in this latest handsome photo of mine after bathing.

There are many hard symptoms in being anemic. One is the problem in sleeping. Some patients just lose their minds and they go crazy because of days of lack of sleep. I had insomnia before and a slight insomnia even today but I am trying to manage it. I am just too clever for ana insomnia and didn't let it to defeat me and I won over it a long time ago.

Eating disorder is a symptom of anemia as well as being thinner than usual and losing weight. Yes I did suffer from not being able to eat because of the effects of anemia but fortunately currently I do not have much of a problem. In fact I have a better appetite if not only from the nasty side-effects of my cinacalcet medication.

Those are just some of the symptoms of anemia besides looking like a radish zombie and being so grumpy and weak all over with chronic fatigue syndrome, hypertension and psychological manifestations like anxiety and anemia must be treated otherwise it will break the patient in many ways including death.

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Thanks God you are not anemic, you are far better than people with anemia. You are getting better and more healthier, death is far away from you. God is in control. We love you

Thank God you are not anemic anymore. God will perfect his work in your life. Amen

My mother is anemic. She used to prepare spinach and liver dishes every other day when I was a child. I liked the spinach dishes she prepared but I did and still do detest any kind of liver dish. She prepared this foods because they are rich in iron and when one is anemic, your body needs it in order not to be anemic.

Thanks be to God my dear, the way the anemia just take disappear in your body is the same way that you wake up one day and see that everything about thyroid disorder has gone because you did not know how it take start .the same way it will go away and the next we are going to hear from you is to celebrate with you for wonderful works of God.

Am super glad you are not anemic. I pray for improvement in your health status.more strenght bro.

God save us.Our near relative is also suffering the same problem.I will pray for you.Take better treatment to solving it.Sharing update.
Best of luck

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

It is no picnic, especially when you have to go to work. I ended up calling out to often from my job at the hospital; even with vitamins I just could not trust myself to work with patients feeling like I might faint at any moment. Thanks in part to steemit I can work more flexibly now; still I find myself feeling about to go down in the worst places and it can be frightening in Los Angeles. No one helps you here when you lose consciousness; they just think you are on drugs or sleeping.

You have so much more to deal with besids anemia; you are a real trooper. Not sure I could handle it.

Thank you for your post, I too am dealing with chronic health issues and am looking for like minded people for support and inspiration. How long have you been using steemit? I hope it is helping to cover the cost of your treatment

I've been here since June and steemit ever since helped me greatly with my parathyroid medicine and dialysis.

I am so glad it is helping you - I can see you getting all the money you need I will hold you in my thoughts

Nice to see that you are enjoying your bath and about your appetite. May God make you more healthy. Amen

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Good for you that you are not suffering like an anaemic patient. Longstanding anaemia might bring lots of troubles as you have mentioned in your post. But in most the cases if you can treat the underlying causes of such anaemia, it reveres to the pre-anaemic stage.

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continue bathing in the sun cryptopie. its good for the health :)

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