Are my ferritin and thyroid worth checking

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

Gently disagreeing with the opening post, or rather adding the other half of it.

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

It got worse before it got better for me, which I wish someone had said. About ten days of worse.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

No advice, just recognition. That sounds exhausting and I am sorry you are in it.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.