Life: The Iron Effect

A while ago I wrote about my random bruising and how I was starting to take Iron tablets to see if this sorted it out.

Self diagnosis is a wonderful thing; I began taking the Iron tablets and low and behold the bruising disappeared. I stopped taking the tablets whilst overseas and came out in the hugest bruises ever, and all over my arms and legs!

I kept taking the tablets once I got back from overseas and would you know it, the bruising disappeared yet again.

Enter the curse of not being able to swallow tablets (yes I am aware how retarded that sounds and I have tried so many different methods, none have worked). I came home from work one day to mum and dad asking why I had black teeth…. WTF, my teeth are black? And why didn’t anyone tell me sooner? Turns out Iron tablets when chewed give your teeth a nice black tinge, good times.

I then found out there is such thing as liquid Iron (naive right?) and went to the supermarket to buy some and almost choked at the price! Like $30 a bottle compared to $13 for the tablets, hmmm that’s not sustainable for me. Turns out you can get liquid Iron on prescriptions however, which brings me to the state I am in at the moment.

I have stopped taking the Iron tablets since the Thursday just before Easter, i.e about 1.5 weeks ago and was fine for the first few days then was gradually getting tireder and tireder very very quickly. I ended up going home from work a few hours early on Friday as I could barely keep my eye’s open after getting 8 hours sleep the night before as well.

This morning I woke up feeling a bit tired but better than I had the day before so decided to go for a walk with one of the girl’s from work with the plan to then head to the gym to do some gentle weights. Ha, I am funny, the walk completely took it out of me and I had to head home to lie in bed and nap. I managed to get up late in the arvo to go to the supermarket but have retired back to bed yet again.

It is the weirdest feeling as I feel perfectly fine other than constantly feeling tired. I am hoping that it is simply a matter of needing the Iron, fingers crossed I can get some blood tests done on Monday (the reason for stopping the tablets, to get bloods done which will hopefully show I am Iron deficient) then start taking the tablets again until mid week when I can hopefully get into the doctor to get a script for liquid Iron (assuming that is my issue!).

In random news I don’t appear to be covered in bruises again though, perhaps a week is too quick for them to come back, perhaps I have that to look forward too next week.