I've been feeling flat for the last few weeks. Unable to complete workouts, feeling sluggish. Constantly thinking that maybe my brake is on when I'm riding my bike.
So last weekend, to add to the misery, my left ear started killing me. I could barely hear out of it and had a rushing sound that wouldn't go away. So Monday morning I went to see my doctor. Ends up I just have an ear infection which he treated with drops.
BUT
While I was at the doctor I mentioned that I've been feeling flat and weak and that I was barely able to make it through a 7 mile run on Sunday. He decided to do some bloodwork and it ends up that I'm "severely" anemic. Now I don't want to hear any crap about me being vegan because I've had my iron tested every year for the last 11 years and it's always been normal to high. He thinks that I have a bit of a predisposition for anemia as my mother and sister (both of whom eat meat) are anemic and that this probably came up as the result of my increased training.
At first I was really upset about this but then I realized that once I get my iron level back up I'll feel awesome so ... yay!
So I'm on an iron/vitamin C/vitamin D cocktail 3 X day for however long my doc tells me to be.
6 weeks until my first race, I just want to make sure I'm 100%
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Vegan eating doesn't make one anemic. Gawd, even I know that and I eat enough cow!
So did the doc say how long the cocktail should take effect?
jon, you would be amazed how many people are like "it's because you're vegan you dum dum vegan dummy!"
He said I should be feeling better in the next couple of weeks. I'm getting retested on the 20th of May and should hopefully be back to normal by then.
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