Ahh! Blood! Take 2

Today I had another blood test, where my blood was extracted for the second time in two weeks. Let's go back a bit, to last Friday, and explore my results and the reasons behind this second round of blood harvesting.

Well I got my blood test results, for the first round, last Friday. From these results, it was revealed that I do not have a Thyroid problem and maybe mine just swelled up because I was a tad sick, though I didn't feel sick. It was also revealed that my bad cholestorol is slightly high, while my good cholestorol is slightly low (by 0.1 to be exact). Also, I am apparently anaemic...something I did not see coming. A possible reason for this could be because I have quite heavy periods, but something that the doctor found to be quite strange was that the corpuscles in my blood were quite small, whereas in most anaemics it's quite large. So he ordered a second blood test that would check my ferritin level, which happens to be directly proportionate to the level of iron in my blood, to see if my body is actually absorbing iron. Well since he speculated that I look healthy, then surely my blood must be absorbing iron...just not enough of it.

And there you have why I needed a second blood test. Depending on the results, I may actually need to take vitamin supplements...oh joy, you can just hear the enthusiasm. I'm not a very keen pill-taker, I tend to like toughing things out even if it's a mind-splitting headache, though in some cases I do take the odd Ibuprofen, since Paracetamol does nothing for me; it just makes the pain even worse.

Heh, this time around I barely felt the needle, but I did feel it when the nurse took it out. Also, I did the silly thing and had blood taken out of the same arm again, and it feels quite sore. I'm sort of having a bit of trouble typing...the fingers on my left hand feel heavy and slow.