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traciyork in #medical • 5 years ago

Oh, @puravidaville - I feel for your plight, and @dandays, you're a bonefide sweetheart to do this for her.

I wish I had some clear-cut and easy answers, but unfortunately I don't. I've had my own bouts of wishing I could get an appointment with Dr. Gregory House, and I'm actually overdue for scheduling a bunch of visits with specialists.

However, I did want to mention that one of the things I discovered very late in the game (like only 4 or 5 years ago) is that I had some extreme deficiencies - Vitamin D and Iron being the biggest issues. I've never been the world's healthiest eater, but I'd always made a point to take some supplements, including iron and D, but I wasn't keeping up with my body's demands.

Long story short (and yeah, this is the Reader's Digest version...lol), after about six months of mega doses of the two, I stopped walking like a ninety year old woman and felt human again. I also discovered the cute little quirk I'd developed over the years of craving ice was actually Pica, and once my iron level stabilized, it went away.

Given all the health and mental issues I'd had over the years (not to mention fairly frequent lab work), it boggles my mind that it took so long for a doctor to notice. In fact my doc said that back in the day, someone with iron as low as mine was, would've been hospitalized and transfused immediately. Fun stuff.

If it's okay with the both of you, I'd like to add Puradays name and health concern to a "Healing & Blessing Request" post in a FB witchy group I belong to. I figure any kind of good juju can't hurt, and maybe someone in the community of about 22k people will recognize the symptoms, or be able to offer some insight.

Speaking of, sending lots of good juju and wishes that you get answers soon. Brightest of blessings to you both.

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5 years ago in #medical by traciyork

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puravidaville 5 years ago

Thank you @traciyork!! You can enter us in a good juju group anytime you’d like- so much appreciated. If only Dr. House was around anymore. I’m sure he’d be bored with my case anyway. Haha

I’ll look into the vitamin and mineral levels. I thinks it’s about time someone did a full comprehensive blood panel. To do privately it’s pretty darn expensive though and then there’s no guarantee that my levels are the culprit. 🥶. Such a pita!!!

I’m so glad you feel like you have a grip on your health again. It’s exhausting constantly trying to figure out why our bodies are betraying us. Thank God you are no longer in this club!!

We are happy you responded and dropped a line. Take care @traciyork!

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traciyork 5 years ago

You're very welcome, @puravidaville! The new weekly Facebook post should be going up some time in the next day, and I'll drop in the request as soon as it is. And I don't know about that - I think there are far too many variables to your case for House to be bored! 😉 😂

Ugh, that's true - paying out of pocket for medical stuff is always an owie in the wallet. I hope that if you do end up having one done, that it ends up being worth the time and hassle.

And I'm sorry to say, I somehow managed to buy a lifetime membership into the WTFismybodydoing club. While my deficiencies are better, I have a whole new round of fun things happening - my current menu selection is Essential Tremor for the main course, Fibromyalgia as the side dish, an Osteoarthritis salad, and a big scoop of depression with some generalized anxiety disorder sprinkled on top for dessert. Hmmm, I think I'm hungry...LOL!

I've had a change in my symptoms recently, so I'm supposed to make a bunch of appointments and have another round of tests to see what's up. Given the time of year, I haven't been particularly motivated, but my hubby (who is in the Amazing Spouse Sportsclub along with yours) is going to make me do it soon. 😊

Happy to chat with you, and I'll shout out again if anything helpful turns up.

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puravidaville 5 years ago

What a pita (paint in the *ss). Why must our bodies yell at us all the time? Haha. I think back to how I was as a teenager and in my twenties, eating crap, drinking crap, staying up all night then going to work, such abuse and it never crapped out on me. Maybe I’m paying for it now. Life is such a blessing and such a roller coaster all wrppaed up into one. We all have problems and yet I wouldn’t trade my life for anything. Dandays has been the most understanding husband. I’m blessed God put us together. Thank you for all of your words. It’s nice to know that we aren’t going through this stuff alone. I do pray your ailments are miraculously cured and you can experience life without all of these concerns. Thanks again for the group prayer (or what you call a witchy positive juju virtual party) 😇

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traciyork 5 years ago

Thank you so much in return, @puravidaville! This is what I posted, and I'll be sure to shout out if anyone has any suggestions -

puravidaville and dandays healing request.jpg

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puravidaville 5 years ago

Oh my God, you’re an Angel!!! Thank you , thank you, thank you so much. I can’t express our gratitude towards your kindness. All of the positive energy and good juju helps immensely. It’s insane to think of our online community being such warriors for each other in times of need. We are glad to have you on our team @traciyork! You’re truly the sunshine through the clouds sista!!

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traciyork 5 years ago

aww thank you so much.gif

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dandays 5 years ago

I’m all for the readers digest version—break me off with the Nat-geo version any time. I really should’ve reached out to the platform a long time ago. Just going through these responses is comforting for the mere fact we’re not the only ones dealing with issues. Like “ok, we all have our problems, cool.” Believe it or not, that, in itself is helpful.

Pica is a new one. I sure hope you were just into ice and never got into drywall. Man.. what a trip! Eating hair! These minds and bodies of ours are frikkin fascinating.

And thank you for reaching out to your Facebook group. Did I mention how humbling this reaction is? Like, are only people on the internet caring and the people in reality are not or is it just easier to care online vs reality? Then where’s the line between virtual and reality? “Humbling.”

I figured you were mental, that’s a no brainer! But I’m glad you’re finding your health answers. And thanks for sharing your story, @traciyork, I’m glad we never met.

I see she’s in contact with you now—thank you for that, too. Don’t be a stranger, we appreciate all of the help we can get. I just should’ve reached out to Steemit sooner. We just landed in Rome less than 10 hours ago, we’ll be here for a month but it’s looking like a month long testament to get healthy. We’ve been recommended Cuba has a medical staff with a heart, I’m down to try anything at this point.

Thank you, Traci.

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traciyork 5 years ago

You're very welcome, and I completely agree - when I first started blogging about all the weird stuff going on with my body, I was amazed by the amount of people who ~~didn't run screaming from my blog~~ who offered words of encouragement and commiseration.

I'm glad I met ~~you~~ @puravidaville too. 😜

Hope you both have a health-filled month, and if you must journey to Cuba afterwards, I'm crossing my fingers, toes, eyes, and anything else I can that you get awesomely positive results quickly and definitively!

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