Anemia

m-a-i-

Ok
I'm suffering from anemia for ages and I don't seem to be getting any better.
Is there a possibility of actually dying from it in the most extreme of cases. I don't have much knwledge on it and I can't seem to find any at all. I found out about anemia whenI tried to give blood. when they saw how low it was they wanted to do a blood count but they couldn't find a vein.

tbh I'm scared sh****** to go to the doctor
HELP!

Dr Galen

hey m-a-i

no one here can give you medical advice, if your concerned you need to go to your GP. I'm sure the blood transfusion people said something similar.

anaemia is afairly common though, can be fairly mild alright but it can also be serious, so you need to go and get the blood test to measure exactly how anaemic you are.
hope it all turns out cool

beeno67

m-a-i- wrote: »

Ok
I'm suffering from anemia for ages and I don't seem to be getting any better.
Is there a possibility of actually dying from it in the most extreme of cases. I don't have much knwledge on it and I can't seem to find any at all. I found out about anemia whenI tried to give blood. when they saw how low it was they wanted to do a blood count but they couldn't find a vein.

tbh I'm scared sh****** to go to the doctor
HELP!

So you do not know if you have anaemia or not. The pinprick test they do at the bloodbank is very inaccurate and regularly diagnoses people as being anaemic when they are not. The fact that they couldn't get a vein has nothing to do with anaemia just the skill of the person doing the test. Go to GP and get the necessary tests done.

Robbiethe3rd

Totally agree, go see your GP, you may be scared for an hour or so, but you'll feel better from then afterwards if nothing else, from having a burden removed, anaemia is usually very treatable.