About pregnancy and health and friends

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Thanks I guess all I know is I'm scared I wish I knew what was wrong with my body so I can stop going crazy

What's going on with your body? (Being scared will only make things worse. Let's sit back and be logical here. Think of this as a problem to be solved, so let's put our heads together and solve it.)

OK, its been four months and every body says its just gas your having so I'm taking tums and some heart burn pills and looking up stuff to take and I'm just so stressed I can't do my work I'm online looking for answers what would you do ?

Are you pregnant or do you think your pregnant?

Do you have a specific health problem, or is this something new?

Do your friends know about this, or is it something you find hard to talk about?

Could you say what age you are?

Lots of questions I know, but it will help towards the answers you get.

Um I thought I was pregnant cause I have these real bad sick days and most of the pregnancy syptoms but the doctor told me I wasn't pregnant, no I don't have a specific health problem ,no my friends don't know, I'm 17

How long has it been since you have seen a doctor?

If the pregnancy test was negative, and your still sick a few months later its time to go back to the doctor and get to the bottom of what's wrong.

Have to spoken to your mum about how your feeling,health wise?

Feeling ill for a long period takes its toll, including the stress factor.

Getting back to the doctor will help get to the bottom of what's physically going on in your body.

Well I seen the doctor and when he told me I wasn't pregnant I was kind of puzzled because I was hoping I was because I was scared of anything else but he didn't give me another issue or cause for my systoms when I went to a GY and the took a pee test andsaid it was negative I cried and I thought something was wrong so now I'm taking stuff for heart burn which I never thought that was the issue they not changing my sleeping or my back pains or how I'm eating actually I don't know what it did and yes I told her my syptoms

What exactly are your symptoms?

They been up and down right now I'm weak but usually I'm sick naseuated tired I sleep from 10p-10a and still be tired my back literally hurts and I can't lay on my back or my stomach cause its so uncomfrotable just to sleep at night I have to drink tea I still have my period red brownish it last for three days,, and something else I have this weird feeling like it's a fish in my stomach like it feels so weird I can't explain it so I don't know what the syptoms actually are but I know this isn't usually me

Did the doctor check for anemia?

I don't know what's that

The doctor would have done a blood test. It means there's isn't enough iron in your blood -- "tired blood." You could have ulcers or the beginnings of ulcers (stomach pain, inability to lie flat or on your stomach, bleeding). Not enough oxygen is getting into your blood.

Oh no sickle cell anemia no I doubt that I'm tired but I really don't think that's the issue but I';ll check

Not sickle cell, just plain ol' garden variety anemia.

Well he checked my blood he said my iron was a little low but nothing major but I don't know when he told me I was fine I guess it didn't show up he said the tiredness was because I was a teenager but thanks I guess I got to check that out

Tell me everything you ate and drank yesterday. Everything.

What does "a little low" mean? Did he give you a number from the blood test?

I ate this pill for heart burn I don't member eveyrthing I ate I member drinking a lot of water and eating oddies and noddles with syrup and dinner I ate pork chops with syrup don't ask me why but I been eating a lot of stuff with syrup

No number he just said the average for my age

Syrup is basically sugar. Not good.

You need meat -- red meat like beef and also liver. Will you eat liver?

Can you call your doctor's office to get the hemoglobin number from the blood draw?

Foods that are a good source of iron include:

* liver
* lean red meats, including beef, pork, lamb
* seafood, such as oysters, clams, tuna, salmon, and shrimp, etc.
* beans, including kidney, lima, navy, black, pinto, soy beans, and lentils
* iron fortified whole grains, including cereals, breads, rice, and pasta
* greens, including collard greens, kale, mustard greens, spinach, and turnip greens
* tofu
* vegetables, including broccoli, swiss chard, asparagus, parsley, watercress, brussel sprouts
* chicken and turkey

Does your mom fix greens?

Is there cereal in your house?

Yeah I will eat liver , just liver and I have the number I believe its on the blood results he gave me I gave them to my GY ill find out plus I take iron pills so I don't know if that will help I just do it cause I been tired

I use to eat seafood but that's something else that has been making me naseuated

Do you take iron once or twice a day? Without skipping? How big is the dose? (What is each iron pill worth?)

No not often and yes

Truthfully I take the iron pill when I'm feeling sleepy I know there's no justice there but if I'm going out I'll just drink orange juice that holds me intel I go to bed

So you're not even trying to help yourself. You're just playing at making yourself well again.

I use what has iron in it I don't member everyday to take it if I took it or how many I took I am concerned about my iron but that's my least concern I'm have sharp pains shooting threw my body right now and noises and moving feeling in my stomach and I don't know what it is that's creeping me out

Breakfast: bowl of Raisin Bran or oatmeal, toast with peanut butter on it, glass of oj or grapefruit juice or cran-grape, etc.

Lunch: 2 slices whole wheat bread, ham or chicken or turkey slices, lettuce, tomato slices, mayo, and oatmeal cookies for dessert.

Supper: beef stew or some kind of ground beef casserole or chicken or turkey, greens of some kind, applesauce, ice cream for dessert.

Did you ever call the doctor to find out the hemoglobin number?

What did you eat today so far and when?

Yes she said 11.7

Eggs and biscuits with syrup -sorry and I haven't ate lunch or nothing because I need to go to the store

12 is normal for women, so you're not anemic. Good.

Lunch first -- something healthy and more than two potato chips -- and cut out the syrup. You're eating 'way too much of that.

OK so what now... im

OK..