Infinite Fred
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- Mar 31, 2014
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Hello all,
This is my first time posting so please be gentle
A little background...
I'm a 26 year old lad from Sweden. I've read Peat's work for a while now and now he is pretty much the only person I trust when it comes to nutrition, hormones and all the like. A few months ago I switched to a new doctor since my last one basically contradicted EVERYTHING I've been reading from Peat and basically what he said just didn't make sense (thought that a TSH of 2.8 was a GOOD thing, :-? )
Anyways, a friend of mine gave me a tip about this doctor who supposedly is a thyroid specialist and I contacted him mostly to get help for my very, very low testosterone count (free T= 12). He took some labs and concluded that I was both hypothyroid as anemic. He therefore prescribed Iron infusion as well as T4.
I had the infusion on Thursday last week. A very high dose of 1000 mg in about 25-30 minutes. It was a very shocking experience since I hate everything having to do with needles, blood, basically intravenous stuff. I actually cried through half the session
That night, about 5 hours after the infusion I had serious chills. I was laying in bed literally shaking to sleep. The next day though I felt fine.
Two days later, on Saturday I had a workout in the morning with good energy and thought "wow maybe this iron thing really worked" but later on my joy turned to despair. After dinner I started to get this excruciating headache witch can only be described as a migraine attack (have never had migraine though) and soon after my whole body started tho ache. I though I was going to faint so I went to bed and was cold sweating through the whole night.
Next day was the same: headache, abdominal pain, achy joints and muscles, no appetite, etc. Spent the whole day alternating between my bed and sofa, sipping OJ and milk to get at least some nutrition. Now, 4 days after the IV my symptoms have lessened a bit but I'm still really fatigued (could be due to malnutrition, energy deficit) and have quite some stomach ache. Have no appetite but have been pounding ice cream just to get calories. Am already pretty underweight due to history of eating disorders so losing weight is the last thing I need right now!
So basically, what do y'all think of this? Can it be the iron or something else in the IV causing allergic symptoms? Can it be that I overloaded on Iron, seeing that it was such a high dose in such a short period of time? I have never contacted Ray myself and I know that he is already to busy as it is so I didn't want to bother. However, I think this is quite serious and I would very much appreciate your input as well as advice in this matter. I know that some of you have quite frequent contact with Ray, so if I could get his input as well it would be fantastic. Am kind of panicking right now
Thanks so much in advance!
This is my first time posting so please be gentle
A little background...
I'm a 26 year old lad from Sweden. I've read Peat's work for a while now and now he is pretty much the only person I trust when it comes to nutrition, hormones and all the like. A few months ago I switched to a new doctor since my last one basically contradicted EVERYTHING I've been reading from Peat and basically what he said just didn't make sense (thought that a TSH of 2.8 was a GOOD thing, :-? )
Anyways, a friend of mine gave me a tip about this doctor who supposedly is a thyroid specialist and I contacted him mostly to get help for my very, very low testosterone count (free T= 12). He took some labs and concluded that I was both hypothyroid as anemic. He therefore prescribed Iron infusion as well as T4.
I had the infusion on Thursday last week. A very high dose of 1000 mg in about 25-30 minutes. It was a very shocking experience since I hate everything having to do with needles, blood, basically intravenous stuff. I actually cried through half the session
That night, about 5 hours after the infusion I had serious chills. I was laying in bed literally shaking to sleep. The next day though I felt fine.
Two days later, on Saturday I had a workout in the morning with good energy and thought "wow maybe this iron thing really worked" but later on my joy turned to despair. After dinner I started to get this excruciating headache witch can only be described as a migraine attack (have never had migraine though) and soon after my whole body started tho ache. I though I was going to faint so I went to bed and was cold sweating through the whole night.
Next day was the same: headache, abdominal pain, achy joints and muscles, no appetite, etc. Spent the whole day alternating between my bed and sofa, sipping OJ and milk to get at least some nutrition. Now, 4 days after the IV my symptoms have lessened a bit but I'm still really fatigued (could be due to malnutrition, energy deficit) and have quite some stomach ache. Have no appetite but have been pounding ice cream just to get calories. Am already pretty underweight due to history of eating disorders so losing weight is the last thing I need right now!
So basically, what do y'all think of this? Can it be the iron or something else in the IV causing allergic symptoms? Can it be that I overloaded on Iron, seeing that it was such a high dose in such a short period of time? I have never contacted Ray myself and I know that he is already to busy as it is so I didn't want to bother. However, I think this is quite serious and I would very much appreciate your input as well as advice in this matter. I know that some of you have quite frequent contact with Ray, so if I could get his input as well it would be fantastic. Am kind of panicking right now
Thanks so much in advance!