I just learned that I earn less than my team.

So we had a house party with the few of my colleagues and I asked tgem how much they earn. It turned out that the guy who joined after me, even earns 10k euros more than me in a year.
I can tell that I am not worse in my job than my other teammates and I even help others with their tickets.
We are software developers for chip developement QA.
The only thing that I am different from the rest of the team that I have a theoretical physics phd, while most of my team is electrical engineers or computer scientists (none of them have phd).

What would you girlies do in my situation? I am really pissed.

Edit: I also earn less than the colleagues who joined before me

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u/terhajlito — 1 day ago

Is it safe to take 10ug B12 every day?

I started to take a pylopass lactobacillus reuteri supplement for a H.Pylori infection and it also contains 10ug of B12.

I don’t have B12 deficiency (last time it was 426 pmol/L). Before this measurement, once I started an 1000ug B12 supplement out of curiosity. After a few days I noticed addrenaline rushes and anxiety attacks. I stopped taking it and I felt normal again.
Now, I know it was 100x the dose compared to the current one, but I wonder, is it safe to take it for 2-3 months?

Have anyone experienced increased jitterness on large B12 doses?

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u/terhajlito — 10 days ago
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Is it normal that ferritin only rises by one in the first month?

I posted earlier my blood results which were the following:
D-vitamin 26,5 6,6 - 49,9 ng/mL
Iron 8,3 9,0 - 30,4 umol/l
Transferrin 3,13 1,80 - 3,82 g/L
Transzferrin saturation 11 15 - 45 %
Ferritin 13,92 4,63 - 204,00 ng/mL
TSH 3,23 0,35 - 4,94 uIU/mL
FT3 (free triiodothyronin) 4,0 2,8 - 6,5 pmol/L
FT4 (free T4) 13,2

I took iron pills (114 mg iron(II)-sulfide), one per day for one month. My current blood result shows this
(they didn’t indicate the units for some reason…)

here is my recent blood test result

Hemoglobin (Hb) 8.5
Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) 1.1
free thyroxine (FT4) 19.1
Ferritin 15
Iron 26 >
Transferrin 2.7
Transferrin saturation 38
T3 triiodothyronine 1.6
Helicobacter Pylori Ag. in feces (PCR) POSITIVE
Vitamin D (250H) 71

So, I have H. Pylori, but after researching it apparently 50% of people have it.
I know it can cause iron absorbtion issues, but if I wouldn’t absorb iron, then my serum iron would be low, right? Now it is above the lab’s reference limit (they indicated it with red color).

So, my serum iron is high from the pills but my body does not store it as ferritin? Will it start to store it more after a while if I continue supplementation?

I feel significantly better since I take the pills, so I guess my body uses the serum iron for its needs.

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u/terhajlito — 28 days ago
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I had a blood work done from a private testing lab and got the following results (the attached photo).

I see that the ferritin is lowish (but still normal?) and the iron results are a bit low also. My tsh is usually around 0.8-1.2 and now is 3.23. So I figured my symptoms of fatigue, air hunger, slow thinking, reduced exercise tolerance, anxiety with no reason might be caused by my low iron levels and thus my thyroid struggling. I also have a lot of gastroenterial symptoms as my stomach hurts most of the time.

So I made an appointment to discuss it with a doctor. But she said my iron is a bit lowish so I should eat more iron rich foods. But otherwise it is fine and it’s only a bit out of the normal range. She said TSH can fluctuate and it is still normal especially with my other thyroid hormones being normal. I also mentioned my stomach hurting all the time but she said she cannot see anything bad regarding that in my blood result so if I want I can make another appointment regarding that. And that’s it. I feel like I just wasted everyone’s time and shouldn’t bother them with my symptoms. She seemed a bit annoyed as well when I was asking if my ferritin is not low etc.

Am I overrecting? My symptoms are because of something else?

u/terhajlito — 2 months ago