Lily
Gold Member
I just wanted to ask for opinions on this one.
I have to admit, I've found my latest (and hopefully last!) restart of CD really tough. I've been incredibly tired, quite low in mood, lacking energy etc. It wasn't exactly a bed of roses the first time I started CD but I don't remember feeling quite this bad. I'm on Day 23 now, so it's not as though I'm in the first couple of weeks.
Anyway, a colleague of mine startled me yesterday when, completely out of the blue, she came up to me and said, "Lily - you're anaemic!"
I asked her how she could tell and she told me that she'd been looking at my nails (we'd been in a meeting and she was sitting at the other end of the table to me. She must have damned good eyesight!). Anyway, she used to be a nurse, and after taking another look at me said that actually, she thought I might be really anaemic, not just a little bit.
Well, this freaked me out, so I have made an appointment to see my doctor tomorrow to get it checked out. But I have to confess to being a bit puzzled. I thought that CD provided all the vitamins and minerals we need - and as I've been more on it than off it for quite a while, there shouldn't have been a problem?
I suppose, if it is anaemia, it could be something other than iron deficiency causing it.
Thoughts anyone? Has anyone else had anaemia whilst on Cambridge?
I have to admit, I've found my latest (and hopefully last!) restart of CD really tough. I've been incredibly tired, quite low in mood, lacking energy etc. It wasn't exactly a bed of roses the first time I started CD but I don't remember feeling quite this bad. I'm on Day 23 now, so it's not as though I'm in the first couple of weeks.
Anyway, a colleague of mine startled me yesterday when, completely out of the blue, she came up to me and said, "Lily - you're anaemic!"
I asked her how she could tell and she told me that she'd been looking at my nails (we'd been in a meeting and she was sitting at the other end of the table to me. She must have damned good eyesight!). Anyway, she used to be a nurse, and after taking another look at me said that actually, she thought I might be really anaemic, not just a little bit.
Well, this freaked me out, so I have made an appointment to see my doctor tomorrow to get it checked out. But I have to confess to being a bit puzzled. I thought that CD provided all the vitamins and minerals we need - and as I've been more on it than off it for quite a while, there shouldn't have been a problem?
I suppose, if it is anaemia, it could be something other than iron deficiency causing it.
Thoughts anyone? Has anyone else had anaemia whilst on Cambridge?