Why didn’t they test my this sooner?! 43f uk
I posted a while ago with some odd blood test results and details of ill health I’ve had for 1+ year. Link if you can be bothered are interested:
https://www.reddit.com/r/haematology/s/eHn8rYi92D
Got some great advice from here that time. As the modes had started growing a little and I started feeling even worse than before, I contacted dr to request repeat bloods as I hadn’t had any since December 2025. Dr eventually got back to me after waiting to contact me for nearly a month, and I had them done on the 7th May. Finally they did an iron panel which shows low iron, low saturation and my ferritin is lower than ever. All results below.
So I was given an urgent referral for an iv iron (on Monday 11th May) and have been asked to do a fit test with possibility of scopes top and/or bottom depending on results of that.
So my questions to you are:
* why are my results only now showing that I need help with something when I’ve been feeling so unwell for over a year?! Everyone just kept saying I had anxiety and was having panic attacks 😔
* why the very sudden drop in ferritin?
* why the hell have I got enlarged lymph nodes? I’ve never had them before in my life- not even when I’ve had infections (throat/ear/chest etc) I’m struggling to find any link between anemia and lymphadenopathy!
* why have they only just completed an iron panel on someone showing mild anemia for so long? Does the iron level itself not actually matter?
Thanks in advance people’s.