doctor talk
The last 48 hours kicked my butt. I’ve never felt such acute fatigue and weakness in my life. In fact, for a brief moment I thought I was near death. Even today I’m still quite weak and tired but feeling much better.
After a visit to a digestive specialist (last Friday) the colonoscopy and endoscopy ordered by my family physician was postponed due to my breathing difficulties. The specialist ordered more blood work and apparently my blood count is very low again. I was prescribed a high dosage iron pill to be taken three times a day for the next month. The doctor made such a fuss about my anemic condition and after the past two days of feeling so ill I realize I need to be ever mindful of my doctor’s instructions.
Out of curiosity, my blood count level was 8, how low is this? I was given my results over the phone and was too flustered to ask the nurse any questions.
posted by Maryrose @ 12:47 AM
9 Comments:
nice blog.....
i'm not familiar with the counts but make sure you follow whatever your doctor says. i'll be praying for you.
God bless.
I am not familiar with it either, but if you are flustered then it must be low! That would explain your fatigue. Please, take good care of yourself and do follow the doc's instructions. I hope you will feel better soon.
Praying for you,
God's Grace.
Sorry to hear you are feeling bad during such a wonderful time of the year. Get better soon as christmas is right around the corner. Happy Holidays to you.
I am sorry to hear about your difficulties and hope you will feel better soon
To answer your question, the average blood count for a normal healthy woman is from 12 to 14 and for the man is 14 - 16
I guess you know now that it is pretty low
You should focus more on including iron rich foods in your diet like read meat, but if you are not up for that, you can always go for cawliflower and spinich
Be careful and take care of yourself and god bless
Yikes not good! take care of yourself. I think of you often!
Leelayz- Thank you so much for the compliment, what a cheerful way to start the day.
Pia and Corry- Thank you for your prayers and friendship. May God bless you both, unceasingly.
Horace Finkle- I could always use a good laugh, I'll be sure to check out your site.
DjSlim- Thank you for the "well wishes", you are very thoughtful indeed. Happy Holidays to you and your family.
Khalidah- Wow, thank you for the information! It's a bit unnerving to know how low my count is but I feel better armed to heal myself due to your kind offer of information.
I'm not much of a spinach fan but I love cauliflower. :-)
Mrs. Darling- I've been ignoring you , not on purpose, and for that I feel horrible. Thank you so much for caring and I think of you often also.
And to all the Internet readers that keep me in their prayers but don't leave a comment, THANK YOU! Call me sappy and sentimental but I'm actually teary-eyed from all the kindness from you wonderful bloggers.
That's danged low! I hemorrhaged about a week after I had surgery in August 2004 and lost half of my blood as the blood count dropped to 7. For those of you who donate blood -- you need to have 13.1 to donate.
Definitely take it easy, gobble the iron pills, and eat iron rich food. Sending prayers your way.
BTW, how did you get in this situation? I couldn't find an earlier entry explaining this.
Oh, and I live in Plano. :)
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