I didn’t even know we were trying to hit you.
Um, we are all going to die eventually.
My mother wasn’t killed by that bleed. In fact, she completely recovered from it.
Losing enough blood makes you tired, though.
ah, yeah, not sure since when this happened before i had no signs of bleeding. now i do.
for now, i emailed the nurse practitioner i saw yesterday. saw a nurse practitioner because the actual doctor didn’t have appointments until May. but then to get an ultrasound, i have to wait until may to get a real diagnosis. just examining me and she saw nothing alarming, but that’s not entirely meaningful.
when you feel terrible all other life’s petty shit doesn’t matter. you just want to feel better!
if you’re bleeding internally and that’s the culprit of being exhausted, wouldn’t it show up on a blood test though? when i felt exhausted in september/october without this additional symptom of actual bleeding, i took several blood tests and my red and white blood cell count were normal.
Aren’t those more like red & white blood cell concentrations? I don’t think they’d tell you much about your total blood volume.
IANAD, but I do believe CBC/RBC/WBC are by volume despite a name that sounds like they count them all.
i’m not following. so would a blood test tell me if i’m bleeding internally or not?
No necessarily volume, but if you’re chronically losing blood, your red blood cells % would be lower because you have less material like iron available from the normal recycling process to make new red blood cells.
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Slow bleeds/ small volumes high in the GI tract are hard to notice. Larger volumes tend to color the stool black. The further down the GI tract, the redder the stool. Or so I was told.
i’m pretty sure the bleeding is in my uterus, not the GI tract. maybe i wasn’t clear.
i think the reflux was a separate issue. it’s very confusing what’s linked.
I feel like the additional symptom of actually bleeding is relevant, though? Like, that might have been something different.
Sorry, was thinking more about last bout of fatigue wrt hidden bleeding, and that current episode is a new symptom. I am guessing uterine bleeding isn’t as obscured as GI bleeding, but IANAW either.
There was such concern over “long-COVID” that it got me thinking about the long-term impacts from any illness. I concluded that any person who gets sick often or suffers a serious illness will have long-term impacts from the extra work their organs had to perform. This issue was not specific to COVID, but most people didn’t think about it previously.
I’m pretty sure i have a genetic tendency to GERD, but i never had any trouble until i had a nasty viral infection in the 90s, and it’s been a problem for me ever since.
From my perspective, the issue with covid isn’t, “OMG! It has this totally new problem”, but that it seems to have a much higher incidence of post-infection damage than most common viral illnesses. It may not be as bad that way as measles, but it’s a hell of a lot worse than “a cold”.
Ultrasound moved to tomorrow at a different location. My np didn’t like my waiting 3 weeks to get this test. She also suggested taking an iron supplement for the tired feeling.
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everyone is all covid covid covid. I think if I had covid instead of all this other crap that keeps on happening, it would have been far easier.
although, don’t want covid on top of this. 
This is substantially correct. Not an expert, just experienced in poop blood.
yeah, don’t think I have poop blood as of yet. hoping to stick to one internal organ that’s bleeding and right now that seems to be my uterus.
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poop blood is often just hemorrhoids though and nothing to really worry about.
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