My iron and B12 turned out to be low

Started 3 March 2025 · 18 replies · 185 hearts · read 1.4k times

BrunoMilan, IT · 3 March 2025

1.4 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: My iron and B12 turned out to be low Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

The physical part is manageable. What is wearing me down is the constant low-level monitoring of it, and I would like to stop doing that.

I have read the guide on this and it covered the ordinary version. Mine is not quite the ordinary version and that is why I am asking.

I will come back and say what my appointment produced, because I hate reading threads that stop before the answer.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

The vivid dreams caught me completely off guard. Nobody had mentioned them and about a third of this circle seems to have had them.

BassCoventry, UK

To the opening post rather than to the thread: Bruno, this is my version of it.

What worked was accepting that I had less in the day than I used to, temporarily, and taking things out of the week rather than trying to do them tired.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

Bruno, I have been where you are and I would rather say so than stay quiet.

Something practical: I stopped scheduling anything on the evening of the day I do it. That one change took the pressure out of the whole week.

5me too 4

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

Two things. First, nobody here can tell you what is happening in your body. Second, the conversation you want to have is with a clinician, and we can help you write down what to say.

KezWigan, UK

Mine correlated with hydration far more than I would have believed. Very dull, very consistent across three months of notes.

NettieBarrow, UK

I have read this twice now. Thank you for writing it.

AshSunderland, UK

Naps helped me and made things worse for somebody I talk to weekly, so I am reluctant to recommend them. Worth trying and worth abandoning.

NilsUppsala, SE

Kez, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

What made the difference for me was a fixed wake time rather than a fixed bedtime. Somebody here suggested it and it took about ten days to work.

SunnivaBodø, NO

What I noticed was that the tiredness came in a wave in the mid-afternoon and if I could get through forty minutes it passed. Trying to push through it never worked.

10me too 5

NoahHull, UK

#10

Somebody here said to treat energy as a budget rather than a personal quality, and that single reframing changed how I planned my weeks.

TobySwindon, UK

#11

What Nils described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I was tired for about eight weeks and then I was not. I have no explanation. I offer it as data because the eight-week accounts are what I needed at week three.

10me too 5

HuwWrexham, UK

#12

Mine improved when I fixed something completely unrelated, which had been quietly wrecking my nights for a year. Worth casting a wide net.

RuthieLeicester, UK

#13

Light in the morning was the thing that helped most and cost nothing. Twenty minutes outside before nine, most days, and my nights changed within a fortnight.

RunaAarhus, DK

#14

Coming back to what Huw wrote further up, because it is the bit I keep thinking about.

The bit I underestimated was how much the fatigue affected my mood, and how much I then attributed to my mood that was actually just being tired.

HollisBath, UK

#15

Thank you for the update. Threads that stop are the worst kind.

TychoLeiden, NL

#16

My prescriber asked about my sleep before anything else when I raised fatigue, which I thought was a diversion and turned out to be the whole answer.

13me too 1

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#17

Thank you all. Somebody arriving embarrassed and being answered without a trace of it is the whole reason this circle is worded the way it is, and it takes everybody to keep it that way.

SamPortland, OR

#18

I found the tiredness hardest to explain to other people. It is not the tiredness of a bad night, it is a different quality, and there is no good vocabulary for it.