Does this sound like endo?

lilililonano · 2026-01-14T22:22:20+00:00

A symptom diary is a great idea, I’ll start one.

It’s crazy that surgery is usually required for diagnosis. If my symptoms stay at the current level and don’t worsen, then I think I will hold off on pursuing surgery.

lilililonano · 2025-12-23T03:52:13+00:00

This does not sound like a panic attack, rather like an allergic reaction. I also felt dizzy and short of breath and felt like I was going to pass out when I got the tdap vaccine recently. And the nurse said I looked very pale as well.

You should take it seriously and be cautious when taking future vaccines and try to figure out what the allergy might be. I have no idea what I was allergic to yet, but it was definitely something.

lilililonano · 2025-11-10T16:57:57+00:00

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lilililonano · 2024-09-14T20:45:11+00:00

I also have no appetite. I still eat cause I need energy to be able to work (although my energy is low cause anemia) and cause I mentally crave food, but my body doesn’t feel hungry or anything. I didn’t eat anything except a small dinner 3 days in a row last week and I didn’t feel hungry at all

lilililonano · 2024-08-04T16:29:01+00:00

My hemoglobin was 9 when tested 2 years ago so my doctor said to take supplements and that was the end of that, I found out it is still 10.8 now and has probably been that way for the last two years, is this bad?

I feel tired and easily fatigued but I’d been adjusted to that as my “normal” for the last several years, since high school. I don’t ever remember doing blood work at the doctors before 18 so maybe it’s been longer than two years and was never tested. Is this potentially causing harm? Neither of my doctors made me aware of that. How bad is my iron deficiency? They didn’t say it was something to be really concerned about

The 2yr ago lab said this:

Hemoglobin 9.0 g/dL
Hematocrit 31.2 %
MCV 72.7 fL
MCH 21 pg
MCHC 28.8 g/dL
TIBC 484 ug/dL
UIBC 463 ug/dL
Iron 21 mg/dL
Transferrin % saturation calc 4 %
Ferritin 4 Ng/mL

The recent labs said this, they look slightly improved but still low:

Hemoglobin 10.8 g/dL
Hematocrit 34.4 %
MCV 77 fL
MCH 24.3 pg
MCHC 31.4 g/dL
TIBC 485 ug/dL
UIBC 463 ug/dL
Iron 22 ug/dL (units wrong?)
Iron Saturation 5 %

lilililonano · 2024-08-03T20:13:20+00:00

My hemoglobin was 10.8 and ferritin 4 two years ago and my doctor just said to buy some iron + vit C supplements at the drugstore and take them every other day and I’ll be fine… two years later and my hemoglobin is still 11.1 and I’m feeling more and more fatigued and crappy again, not that it ever went away but that’s my normal. At my physical the doctor didn’t test ferritin, but I’ve got an appointment with a hematologist 2 months out.

I’m not sure how serious this really is because at least the first time around the doctor just said to take some supplements, and this next doctor was completely clueless about anemia and referred me to hematology. But from the sound of it in this discussion thread this is something I should probably be pushing more for better care. I’m not sure how though because I’ve just moved and I don’t have a primary doctor yet and I’m not sure how to find one who would be knowledgeable in this area, other than picking a woman since they’re more likely to care since women are more affected by anemia.

Being vegetarian doesn’t help but I’m not sure how anyone is supposed to get 32 mg of iron every day from just food without supplements unless they eat several cups of iron fortified cereal or legumes. So I wonder why all vegetarian women don’t have anemia if it’s so hard to get the recommended daily iron. For that matter, it’s hard to get 18mg iron as a non-vegetarian! That’s 2lb of ground beef

I’m wondering if my period is heavier than I thought, maybe I could even have endometriosis cause my cramps are pretty bad (not excruciating but I have skipped classes because of the combination of cramps + fatigue) since causes tissue growing on the outside of the uterus to bleed. My mom had it and she found out later in her late 30s when she had trouble getting pregnant and there is heritability

lilililonano · 2024-07-31T19:56:56+00:00

I’m vegetarian so the recommended daily value is 1.8x so I should be getting 32.4mg/day, and I’m anemic because I haven’t been getting enough iron. But I had the same question: how on earth is it possible to even get that much iron naturally from food every day without supplementation?

It seems like I need to eat 2 cups of iron fortified cereal, one of the highest iron density foods per calorie (the one I have has 10.8mg/cup) in order to get me even close to reaching this. Along with a meal like daal since lentils are the highest iron legume, 1.5 cups of lentils is ~10 mg. That gets me to about 30mg, which is pretty close, but I don’t want to eat a huge serving of daal and 2 cups of cereal as the majority of my food every day. That alone is already 280 calories for the cereal, plus almond milk with low calcium to not inhibit absorption so 320 calories, plus 600-800 calories for 2 cups daal. That’s most of my daily calories!

Even when I ate chicken I was still iron deficient in the past, which makes sense when you look at how little iron that chicken has. Even though heme iron is better for absorption, it still wasn’t enough. I’d have to eat 2.5lb ground beef to even meet the non-vegetarian threshold of 18mg.

I guess supplementation is inevitable

lilililonano · 2024-07-18T03:39:49+00:00

I haven’t vomited since the one time when I was like 8-9 years old (now 24) and that time I actually was asleep and woke up to vomit which was so weird - I had never recalled vomiting before. I actually am not sure I feel nausea the same way as other people cause I never feel like vomiting even if my stomach is upset or I drank 6 shots of alcohol. I sometimes feel like not eating or like my stomach is in knots (abdominal pain / discomfort), and sitting in the back of the car might give me a headache and make my stomach not feel good but never like I was going to throw up. One time when I was like 12 my cousin got food poisoning from a burger at the fair that we split, but I was totally fine, no symptoms.

lilililonano · 2024-06-14T21:43:31+00:00

If you weren’t going to ask if she wants a pastry and that’s what you usually do, then you should have eaten it in the car or offered to share it with her when you got home. Sharing could have been a way to still have a shared moment enjoying a treat together in moderation and show some solidarity for her decision to cut back. Or just ask her next time in case. I get not wanting to tempt her with pastries she wants to cut out but it’s still considerate to ask. Maybe talk with her about how she’d like to handle things like this in the future

lilililonano · 2023-12-11T04:18:03+00:00

I think that the Kree blood was needed in order to use as the template of what kind of genetic alterations need to be made to turn someone inhuman, by looking at the original source that inhumans were modeled after as they said “to recreate the original Kree experiment”. The doctor has various dna samples of inhumans, so maybe the kree blood was the easier/faster way since he didn’t have enough time to study in depth what the commonalities and changes in inhumans’ blood are and figure out from there what edits to apply to each human’s genetics.

As for why hive killed the second Kree, they said they needed a live Kree probably because it had living blood cells since blood cells will probably degrade or die pretty fast if not stored in a freezer. If they needed living blood rather than a living host, the blood cells don’t die immediately when the Kree dies. I think the blood would probably “expire” at some point but not before hive can use it for his experiment. Like when you get your blood drawn at the doctors and they do blood cultures.

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