@practicallyperfectfamily: It’s not fine 🫠🩸💉 Since June, my ferritin’s dropped from 20 → 10.7, iron from 165 → 65, and TSAT from 46% → 18%. Even my red blood count slid from 4.50 → 3.94 and hemoglobin from 13.7 → 12.0. But apparently… ‘Let’s just recheck in three months.’ 🫠 If things keep trending this way, there won’t be much left to recheck. The hardest part? When the specialists — the ones you’re supposed to trust — keep saying everything looks fine. And for me, it’s not just iron. I have a rare condition that makes it hard to absorb oral iron, and it’s critical that my body doesn’t fall too far into depletion. So waiting it out isn’t really an option. Things I’ve been told: • “It’s normal for women to have low iron.” • “There are people with bloodwork way worse than yours.” • “We’re trained to treat horses, not zebras.” #ChronicIllness #RareDisease #swiftie #irondeficiencyanemia #spoonie

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