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I started having symptoms a few weeks ago of feeling fatigued, not sleeping well, weight gain but no appetite, dizzness, irritability etc.

In the past, whenever this happens, I check my thyroid and iron. I also am on a birth control that has disrupted my cycle, 1 year postpartum and almost 40 so there are various other things that could have accounted for this (just as a disclaimer).

I got lab work done. All my thyroid bloodwork was actually perfect for once. However, I got my iron back today and while my iron and iron saturation were within the range, my ferritin was low (around 25). I assume this is the reason I have felt funky, but wasn't sure if there was scientific evidence that one could have normal iron and hemoglobin but low ferritin.

My new pcp told me all labs were normal …

Hi!

I started having symptoms a few weeks ago of feeling fatigued, not sleeping well, weight gain but no appetite, dizzness, irritability etc.

In the past, whenever this happens, I check my thyroid and iron. I also am on a birth control that has disrupted my cycle, 1 year postpartum and almost 40 so there are various other things that could have accounted for this (just as a disclaimer).

I got lab work done. All my thyroid bloodwork was actually perfect for once. However, I got my iron back today and while my iron and iron saturation were within the range, my ferritin was low (around 25). I assume this is the reason I have felt funky, but wasn't sure if there was scientific evidence that one could have normal iron stores but low ferritin?

Please no judgment.

I had been doing a very delayed vaccine schedule with my baby because I have anxiety about vaccines. I have an older brother who, in the 70's, had seizures following vaccines (my mother speculates), and he has been developmental delayed my whole life.

I was not raised anti vaccine and I received all my immunizations. I am also not anti vaccine. I am just afraid. My whole life, I have heard my mom talk about how alert and bright my brother was until he got sick.

My son is now 13 months. We were hoping to get him caught up on everything this summer and decided to go every two weeks to get shots (with obvious spacing between specific doses i.e. Heb B is every 4 weeks). My pediatrician approved the catch up schedule I made and thought it was very reasonable.

But now I'm worried about getting shots every two weeks. Is this too much for a toddler? Is there any danger to going every two weeks as long as i'm spacing out specific doses? My son has never had a reaction or a fever or anything.

UPDATE:
Thank you to everyone who approached this with kindness and also made me feel a lot better. Obviously, anxiety doesn't mean the thing I'm afraid of is actually real, but it helps to have people who can hold my hand. Being a mom is the hardest thing I've ever done.

I wouldn't consider myself full crunchy. Maybe a lil chewy. I'm trying to navigate all the conflicting information out there and I'm simply overwhelmed.

On one hand, I work in research at a medical school. I personally see on a day-to-day basis how arduous it is to get a research project approved and up and running. I also am constantly bombarded by more progressive messages around vaccines.

On the other end, i have an older brother who was a perfectly healthy and alert the first few months of his life, suddenly become the opposite after receiving vaccines (at least my mother suspects). He is now almost 50 and has never lived independently.

So you can see where my confliction lies.

We are starting daycare in the fall and have been following a delayed vaccine schedule (and also have chosen not to give certain ones, i.e. Hep B.) Our daycare requires all the state mandated vaccines and we have contemplated just submitting a religious exemption.

I'm not sure the purpose of my post, other than looking for advice and understanding from other mothers who have to navigate all this stuff.

I feel it's important to protect my child and I'm also mad that I can't at least make some of my own choices in my own time without being mandated to do so.

So I was prescribed a high taper dose of prednisone to a sudden/new allergy to hair toner (yay). I was told to take 60 for 3 days, 40 for 3 days and 20 for 3 days.

I am VERY sensitive to medications. Most of the time i choose not to take anything and all doctors that know me know I basically work under the therapeutic level of any drug. I did some research before starting this and learned it was a high dose (was told this by the pharmacist as well) but after talking to a few people, i was told it was fine, i shouldn't have any side effects.

Well, I started on 60 and it made me feel so nuts and i had terrible insomnia. The doctor told me, "Yes, it was high" and that I could drop down to 20 a few days followed by 10. So I took 20 two days and then 10 two days.

I'm so glad i cut down, because 2 days after stopping I cannot sleep, have had hot flashes, adrenaline rushes and heart racing. I'm wondering given how sensitive my body is, if I still didn't taper slow enough (even though everyone said I don't need to taper on such a "low" dose).

Is this normal for stopping prednisone? I guess my cortisol levels need to reset or something, but I can't deal with lack of sleep another few days!

I got my hair highlighted and toned at the roots over two weeks ago and ever since, I’ve had terribly red skin, and burning cheeks (and ears at night). At first we treated it like an allergy so I took some steroids and that didn’t help. Now I’m starting to wonder if I’m having a big rosacea flare. Any moisturizer burns and makes it worse. Can hair color cause a flare? My normal triggers are cold air or certain face washes.