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How likely are we to faint/collapse with anemia?
My boss has been really good about not making me travel the last few months... but he's really gearing me up for the fall season. I have to do a long day tomorrow, 8 hours of driving, plus a 5 hour meeting. I have to walk quite a ways... my HBG is sitting at 11.8, three weeks ago, but I feel like can mans sitting on my chest, I get light headed really easy.... my question: how do you know when its not light headed, I am going to collapse on the nasty streets of albuquerque, and nobody I'm with is big enough to carry me?? Seriously, does anything help? I keep thinking "if I eat something, I'll feel better"... wrong.... Open to suggestions from other anemic travelers...
also, how often do we really just "pass out".... I would be mortified..
also, how often do we really just "pass out".... I would be mortified..
what a great idea!! we do have pure o2 around.. hhmmm, but really big tanks!!
the acyclovir is a miracle drug, and you can't even tell your taking it, no sx!! my son used to get them so bad he gets up in the middle of the night to meet the every 8 hours dose!! But, seems like taking it reduces the frequency and magnitude of the outbreakks also..
the acyclovir is a miracle drug, and you can't even tell your taking it, no sx!! my son used to get them so bad he gets up in the middle of the night to meet the every 8 hours dose!! But, seems like taking it reduces the frequency and magnitude of the outbreakks also..
Well I'll be dang...vagal response to fear of needles. I just googled it and those are the exact symptoms I had a few weeks ago on my 3rd procrit shot.
I had given myself about 30 IFN shots with no problem. I started on procrit and gave myself 2 shots with no problem. Just straight in, shoot, and straight out. I mean I was freaking out every time but I could get through it. Then I got a new nurse who said I should be pulling back on the syringe to make sure I wasn't in a vein. Just so happened on the next shot of procrit I tried to pull back and fumbled around and wiggled the needle around a bit and pulled it half way out. ( I get freaked about what the needle is doing to the inside of my body when it moves around) I just gave up and started pushing the plunger down. I think I either was on a nerve or had pulled the needle back to far but it stung way more than usual. Then I thought.....I hit a vein! I broke out in a sweat, got sick to stomach, getting ready to pass out feeling. All I could think about was finishing the shot. The faster I pushed the more it stung (typical procrit) so I would stop for a sec. Knowing I was going to pass out any second I kept at it til I got the whole shot in. I was right on the edge of passing out and throwing up. Wife saw me and said you look awful, and walked me to bed. Did some deep breathing and by 5 min it had gone away. Funny thing...I made my wife walk me to the sharps container in the bathroom before I layed down. Still had some wit about me.
Anyway, I just assumed this was the worst panic attack I had ever had in my life. All shots after have been fine. I don't pull back on all of them but I am working on a technique. Whether I need to or not I am going to do it to prevent a similar response to what I had when I thought I hit a vien.
Thought I would throw in my little story.
I had given myself about 30 IFN shots with no problem. I started on procrit and gave myself 2 shots with no problem. Just straight in, shoot, and straight out. I mean I was freaking out every time but I could get through it. Then I got a new nurse who said I should be pulling back on the syringe to make sure I wasn't in a vein. Just so happened on the next shot of procrit I tried to pull back and fumbled around and wiggled the needle around a bit and pulled it half way out. ( I get freaked about what the needle is doing to the inside of my body when it moves around) I just gave up and started pushing the plunger down. I think I either was on a nerve or had pulled the needle back to far but it stung way more than usual. Then I thought.....I hit a vein! I broke out in a sweat, got sick to stomach, getting ready to pass out feeling. All I could think about was finishing the shot. The faster I pushed the more it stung (typical procrit) so I would stop for a sec. Knowing I was going to pass out any second I kept at it til I got the whole shot in. I was right on the edge of passing out and throwing up. Wife saw me and said you look awful, and walked me to bed. Did some deep breathing and by 5 min it had gone away. Funny thing...I made my wife walk me to the sharps container in the bathroom before I layed down. Still had some wit about me.
Anyway, I just assumed this was the worst panic attack I had ever had in my life. All shots after have been fine. I don't pull back on all of them but I am working on a technique. Whether I need to or not I am going to do it to prevent a similar response to what I had when I thought I hit a vien.
Thought I would throw in my little story.
you know, its funny, but my work is really important to me. I have sick leave, and I am using some, but not a lot. If hubby and I win the lottery, he'd quit, I wouldn't. For the most part its bearable, I live 1/2 block from work, so I run home to eat, rest, etc. Just some weeks seem worse than others. Alb. will be nasty, no doubt. Boss is good about it, but heck it goes on and on and on and on...(I always wanted to shoot that damm pink bunny, feel the same way about tx!!)I just did shot 28, with a minimum of 32 to go. But, look who I'm talking to, makes me feel guilty for whining... so many here treat and retreat....
just make them big fellas humpa tank into the trunk-yu can sneak off fora hit as needed-kinda like the old days-eh??.....i have always used lysine supplement for blistr,but i believe it can mess w/ our immune system?,so bit problematic while trx'in-tho the anti-virals seem to be taking care of business...didja see my ques. to yu waydown on "organic eggs" thread?? just trying to get a chuckle & a snappy retort-luv to laugh!and the poop thread did that..
Hey consuela, I mulled over the fainting part a few weeks ago myself with the hgb around 10.1 and the heat and all. Kept wondering if I'd make it here or there w/out tastin asphalt or rug. Mentioned it tothe kid and he looked down at me and said...well it's not like the top of you is that far off the ground, Dad.
Of course the ladders at work were a problem...safety first of course...Considered my old system I used back in the 80's...when I worked construction for a contractor doing work in a govt plant all day, then tended bar til 2am and usually brought half the place home to the condo I shared to party before goin in for 7am. Well one day I'm totally burnt out, my boss(also a bar customer) sends me into a building we put up and tells me to paint all these rods up in the 25' plus ceiling with special coated paint. Had some precarious places to place the ladder, and knew I needed to be careful... Few hrs later I hear the boss at the bottom of the ladder...Hey Donnie!! You sleepin up there you wacko??!!!"
"Oh hey Skip, guess I dozed off, but it's okay, I tied my belt to the ladder."
"Yo Bozo, what's the ladder tied to?!!" "Oh"
Of course the ladders at work were a problem...safety first of course...Considered my old system I used back in the 80's...when I worked construction for a contractor doing work in a govt plant all day, then tended bar til 2am and usually brought half the place home to the condo I shared to party before goin in for 7am. Well one day I'm totally burnt out, my boss(also a bar customer) sends me into a building we put up and tells me to paint all these rods up in the 25' plus ceiling with special coated paint. Had some precarious places to place the ladder, and knew I needed to be careful... Few hrs later I hear the boss at the bottom of the ladder...Hey Donnie!! You sleepin up there you wacko??!!!"
"Oh hey Skip, guess I dozed off, but it's okay, I tied my belt to the ladder."
"Yo Bozo, what's the ladder tied to?!!" "Oh"
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