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Sep 22, 2024 at 12:20 PM
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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.
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Oct 05, 2024 at 05:13 PM
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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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Oct 24, 2024 at 03:14 PM
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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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Oct 24, 2024 at 04:47 PM
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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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Oct 24, 2024 at 05:42 PM
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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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Oct 24, 2024 at 09:07 PM
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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 150mg; meds for blood pressure & cholesterol |
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Oct 24, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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yeah. for double reds, it is once every 16 weeks because of how long it takes the red blood cells to be built again
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Oct 25, 2024 at 07:47 AM
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No cause as of yet. Not sure if they'll look. Canadian healthcare is horrible. I'm off to the clinic now in fact. My donations just started, but to address this ferritin, it's on a therapeutic schedule that's monitored. Goes for 8 weeks then it should change. I'm still learning about this stuff.
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Oct 25, 2024 at 09:51 PM
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Please keep us posted! And good luck!
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Oct 28, 2024 at 02:51 PM
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I have a MSLT test this weekend. Not looking forward to it. This two week sleep archive shows my world is completely messed up. I also don't see myself coming out of this with any new info.
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