In my 20 years of being B12 deficient, it has never taken this long to recover. I feel continually like I have just given blood. Constantly feeling on the verge of passing out. Numb and cold. Exhausted after simple tasks like making coffee.
Yesterday was the start of Day 3 of having a fresh supply of vitamin B12 injected into my thigh muscle. I started wondering if this is what it feels like in the beginning of pregnancy. God bless you men who love your wives, girlfriends, sisters, and mothers. Women have to go through these kinds of feelings every month with every menstrual cycle. We lose iron to the uterus at the off chance that a fertilized egg will be implanted. For the 400 or so menstrual cycles a woman has in her lifetime, less than 1% of those cycles for most women results in the birth of a child. For the other 390-something times, we become anemic. I don't ever want to hear a man bitch or moan about being tired or stressed out.
Obviously, the thought of what pregnant women go through brought me to wonder about the length of time it's taking now to recover. Looking back at my calendar, I see that my last menstrual period started 21 days ago. This means that it's prime time for menstrual anemia. But since my body lacked the B12 needed to make new red blood cells to keep the iron that prevents anemia, this blog is now active.
In the past, I've tried keeping journals of this health madness. But I'm too inconsistent and distractible to keep it up. Hence, this horrible experience.
After the needle goes through the skin, the rest is easy. The needle point is so sharp, it can hardly be felt. I hope one day to not be afraid of sticking myself that this procrastination would not result in 4, nearly 5 wasted days of life.
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