[QUOTE=āElvis Brandenberg Kremmen, post: 996394, member: 1624ā]Yes, but ruled out thankfully. I actually ticked a lot of the boxes as Iām Diabetic and regularly suffer from abdominal pain, but thatās mainly an unpleasant side-effect of diabetes medication.
It was actually the doctor treating my mother that initiated the process of my brothers and I being screened.[/QUOTE]
Proper order. I think it can skip generations as well so ye should get any kids etc checked. You have to wait until you are 18 to be checked for some reason. Maybe it doesnāt show up before that or some such.
[QUOTE=ācorner back, post: 996431, member: 1572ā]Iām a carrier but donāt have the condition. My mammy has it.
Julio, are you allowed donate the blood now. I thought that they couldnāt use it for bureaucratic reasons but were trying to change this.[/QUOTE]
They have a pilot project in place in Dublin that allows you to do it. But if you just go in anywhere and donāt tell them theyāll take it away. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the blood, indeed its high ferritan content is good for patients recovering from surgery.
Its good for the blood supply, its free and you get free taytos. Everyone is a winner. Theyāll get around to lifting the restriction eventually, itās an awful waste as it is.
Itās a balls of a thing. Drinking completely exacerbates it. The smokes produce pure iron in your blood and the thing fucks up your lungs anyway. So far so predictable.
Then there is the counterintuitive stuff. Supplements drive the ferritin up as do Rubex and the like. I used to get up in the morning and make a load of fruit juice. I might as well have been poisoning myself. All that vitamin C only encourages the production of ferritin. Needless to say liver is a no no and then raw oysters are to be avoided as they can contain a virus that is fatal, but only to haemos.
Do you be tired after a venesection?[/QUOTE]
One of the symptoms I have never had is tiredness, even after the vene. Iām like the fucking Duracell bunny, which I suspect is one of the reasons the thing was never diagnosed. Iād probably have been a contender for the Tour de France if I hadnāt had this cunt of a thing holding me back.
On the other hand I usually have a bit of a kip in the hospital bed when the lovely nurses are waiting for the results of the bloods to come up from the lab before the vene starts.
@Fran[/USER], [USER=332]@Julio Geordio Do they be a long time looking for a vein. I used to be in agony when theyād put the needle in and the blood wouldnāt come and itād be in and out and side to side and jaysus knows where else until theyād finally draw the 500ml. But then the found a vein on the inside of my arm thatās like old faithful. Fucking stuff gushes out so fast they can hardly control it.
Tip for you Fran as well is drink buckets of water the day before. Itāll come out much easier.
Jaysus Iāve often had doctors tell me to go easy on the pints due to liver readings in blood tests but I drink fuck all the last few years compared to my youth. And Iām wrecked constantly the last few years. How is it diagnosed? And pronounced?
[QUOTE=āFagan ODowd, post: 996539, member: 706ā]@Fran[/USER], [USER=332]@Julio Geordio Do they be a long time looking for a vein. I used to be in agony when theyād put the needle in and the blood wouldnāt come and itād be in and out and side to side and jaysus knows where else until theyād finally draw the 500ml. But then the found a vein on the inside of my arm thatās like old faithful. Fucking stuff gushes out so fast they can hardly control it.
Tip for you Fran as well is drink buckets of water the day before. Itāll come out much easier.[/QUOTE]
In fairness I havenāt been too tired after it, expected to be worse.
They donāt usually have trouble finding veins and there is one in particular on each arm which is fairly prominent. In saying that the cunt chose a difficult vein yesterday and it was more uncomfortable than usual.
