I've noticed the same. I'm a woman so bleed often, I'd feel the fatigue but my blood work didn't show anemia, so my primary care physician didn't feel the need to prescribe it yet. I decided to take supplements on my own and monitor the ferritin levels to make sure I don't over-do it.
Note, if you aren't bleeding regularly, it's very unlikely you need it, and iron might be harmful. Make sure to test your ferritin levels before and regularly as you do it.
Frequent monitoring of iron/ferritin levels while on oral iron supplementation is likely not necessary -- barring a genetic disease, you're extremely unlikely to get iron toxicity or overload at instructed oral doses. Periodic monitoring is more to assess a positive response - since if your levels are not going up on supplementation it warrants further investigation.
Oral iron is now recommended given only every other day to avoid GI side effects and there is evidence that the response is just as good to more frequent.
I think this is true, with the caveat that men don't have periods like women do, so taking iron supplements every day for say 5 years might cumulatively add up for them.
But otherwise normal/daily supplements for a few months probably won't be negative and indeed, might even be beneficial for certain subpopulations, like athletes.
The otherwise healthy man with no iron deficiency has no reason to take daily iron supplements for 5 years and therefore no need to monitor iron levels. If they are iron deficient there is some sort of blood loss or underabsorption going on and if and until that is corrected an oral iron supplement is unlikely to cause toxicity. If it is corrected, then iron replacement should only take a few months.
While I agreed, I do want mention that hereditary hemochromatosis affects roughly 1 in 300 people. So of the people reading this thread likely someone will have it.
Iron gummies are a thing, and helpful to a family member. Multi-vitamin gummies too, which might have enough iron to keep levels up depending on the condition.
Try Ferrochel! Normal ferrous sulfate absolutely destroys my stomach and gives me tarry shits but I can take Ferrochel on an empty stomach without any side effects.
This frustrates me. Right in this very thread are many accounts of people saying that doctors won’t listen to you and will do only the minimal amount of work possible to get you out of their office, and that you should do your own research. Then like 3 comments down are posts like yours, sarcastically putting down people sharing results of that same research.
Perhaps we are reading different comments, but the parent doesn't read as sarcasm to me. Something else to be aware of is that the people responding here as doctors do not make up even a small fraction of a percentage of the practising doctors, so although there is lots of interesting information being shared, using that as a way of refuting people's complaints is not exactly useful.
This sounds fantastic. The blood pressure cuffs are very bothersome for anyone needing to do a 24-hour analysis. My mom did one and it would take a measurement every hour during night time and it was very hard for her to sleep through it. It would be tight enough some times to burst capillaries. And once an hour is a really low resolution.
I've heard explosions similarly far away (although it was at the coast and in an unusually quiet place). Explosions in the air travel really far. And every time I heard explosions so far I looked at the news/social media.
In one of these incidents the news article seemed like it might be a coverup to me so I looked up user forums in case someone leaked the real information.
Do you remember what explosion it was that you heard 80km away? Because I seriously doubt any of the weaponry Russia has dropped so far can be heard anywhere close to that far.
Not OP, but I remember reports of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire explosion which wikipedia claims "Because of an inversion layer, the explosions were heard up to 125 miles (200 km) away".
Not noticing doesn't mean the world doesn't care. There are a lot of reasons people vanish and it's harder to notice the absence of something than its existence, and people usually vanish for positive reasons, so I think nothing of it. I cried after discovering some people I hadn't known personally but were adjacent to me have died. I didn't notice their absence but I can empathize with the suffering they felt before their death, or the feelings of their family coming to grip with their absence.
While I have a strong emotional reaction to it, I don't think it's a bad thing, it is a part of life and a reminder for me to savor life.
Firefox will make it possible to upload manifest V3 extensions to their store (eventually). It's a good thing because it makes it easier to make an extension that works unmodified for both.
Chrome is additionally planning to remove support for manifest V2 as well, Firefox can't start to do this because they don't support V3 in their store yet.
They're "funding the israeli government/military" as much as a purchase from a US firm funds the US military - they're legally required to pay a tax and some of that money goes into the military.
Once released from the military these people have no additional obligation to pay for the military more so than people in more tame business - in fact, they might be seen as owed something for serving in the military, rather than the other way around.
Yes, this is why subsidiaries in the private sector are useful - when something goes terribly wrong with one, like it did with NSO, it doesn't implicate the whole of Israel/IDF - at least not explicitly.
I'd like to think I've been getting better at it. I find that I'm more familiar with what successfully finishing a task "feels like".
- doing the less appealing subtasks you've been putting off. it's objectively more difficult towards the end if you work this way.
- not treating "it works" as a finish line, remembering there might be more steps like code review, writing tests, and so on.
- avoid self-punishing comments like "I wanted to finish this on Friday and it's not done yet".
this often combines with the previous point - "I felt the task is done when it worked, but now I have to do all the tedious things like tests and I already declared it to be done on Friday!"
Note, if you aren't bleeding regularly, it's very unlikely you need it, and iron might be harmful. Make sure to test your ferritin levels before and regularly as you do it.