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Member Since Apr 2024
Location: Canada
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#1
Hoping for a better year coming up. I apparently have Type 2, and trying to find ways to deal with it, while looking for a job that won't fire me. This is hugely stressful.
September 22, 2024 |
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Location: California
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I totally get it. I developed N as long covid. It gets better over time. Probably not the case with you. Thank you for informing us that there is such a day in the calendar.
__________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Update: My high ferritin (950) is causing me to wake up 3 times a minute. I'm trying to fix that, but that means blood letting a pint every week for the next 6 months.
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How about you donate double reds? This will take out more red blood cells and benefit others to boot.
__________________ Bipolar I w/psychotic features Last inpatient stay in 2018 Geodon 40 mg Seroquel 75 mg Gabapentin 1200 mg+Vitamin B-complex (against extrapyramidal side effects) Long term side effects from medications, some of them discontinued: - hypothyroidism - obesity BMI ~ 38 |
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Taking a pint a week is the absolute highest anybody can achieve. Otherwise I die. This is once a week, not the usual once per two months for regular blood donation. This isn't donation, this is hospital therapeutic phlobotomy. The blood goes nowhere. Gets destroyed.
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Holy Moly! Has a cause been identified?
Yes, every eight weeks (or less frequently) is the routine for blood donations. My guess is that your donation would be refused anyway. __________________ Major Depressive Disorder; Sleep Apnea; possibly on the spectrum Nuvigil 50mg; Effexor 37.5mg Wellbutrin 100mg; meds for blood pressure & cholesterol |
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