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boywhocantsayno

Here we go again...

Mar 31, 2009 15:57

I just got a call from my doctor... the last set of blood work is in ( Read more... )

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randomyst March 31 2009, 20:09:26 UTC

You be well, Mister, you hear! ;-) Hopefully this is something treatable.

boywhocantsayno March 31 2009, 21:00:49 UTC

Thanks! The doctor said that it was easily treatable, and even better... covered by OHIP. :)

nexstarman March 31 2009, 21:55:30 UTC

So how does it feel to be Iron Man?

boywhocantsayno March 31 2009, 23:31:49 UTC

I'm more worried about what will happen if I bump into Magneto. ;)

brotherflounder March 31 2009, 20:30:09 UTC

Dandy. A couple people in my family had hemachromatosis, though it was before my time. Apparently, it's often misdiagnosed as an iron deficiency, which ends up causing all sorts of fun when patients start taking iron supplements. (And that's about all I remember from my ninth grade biology research project on it.)

Hope everything's okay.

boywhocantsayno March 31 2009, 21:02:56 UTC

Thanks! Fortunately I hadn't jumped the gun on the diagnosis (knowing that tests were still being done) and hadn't bought or taken any supplements, even though the preliminary diagnosis was anemia. :)

I guess the cause of that particular confusion is that the body is absorbing too much iron out of the blood, so it doesn't show up in the bloodwork.

I'm not big on self-medicating. I prefer to let the doctors tell me what to take... it's why I pay taxes, after all. ;)

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boywhocantsayno April 1 2009, 22:53:14 UTC

Thanks!

mountebank April 1 2009, 11:54:48 UTC

Lance, I would've answered the doctor the same: I think I've seen it on House...

boywhocantsayno April 1 2009, 22:53:53 UTC

At least I've resisted the impulse to suggest that I think it might be lupus. ;)

mountebank April 1 2009, 23:39:06 UTC

The tests are negative?! Oh my God, is it Lupus? It's Lupus, isn't it?!