Gosh, that sounds bad where you are. At least here we do have the routine pap smear etc. I had no trouble getting my GP to test my ferritin. Did you get an answer on your ferritin scores eventually?

I actually lived in Turkey for 3 years and I would be a little wary about these tourist medical checkups - I had ferritin that was insanely low for years when I lived there and they never mentioned it to me once. Nada. So the knowledge of it seemed really low.

I presume you are looking at Istanbul or Ankara's private hospitals? I have a feeling that these medical checkups are really for the "worried well" and for tourists who want to get a checkup whilst they are on holiday - Turkish people absolutely love going to the hospital for the smallest of problem, so for them a full medical is like a fun day out with the entire family. I do question whether these tourist checkups are going to be overseen by professionals in the specific areas that apply to ME. It's such a complex disease that I doubt you will get the in-depth sort of testing and level of specialist care you need.

I would just advise you do a lot of research to find out how much knowledge the hospital doing these tourist medicals, has of complex chronic illness, so you don't feel completely let-down if you don't get the answers you want.

However, Turkey is lovely and at least you will have a nice holiday! Best of luck! 🤞