obamacare dealt huge blow

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I absolutely agree with you that universal Medicare is the answer; we're just still some years from it, I think. But generally, the ACA is an improvement over what was before. But hey, Social Security was a pretty limited program when it started- the only way to get the South to vote for it was to write it so basically all black Americans were excluded- and now it's universal, so that's something.

Sorry about the anemia. I have the opposite problem- iron overload. Runs in my Celtic family. My levels are fine now, but I'll have to donate a lot of blood eventually as it can really cause big problems over the years. My dad was recently diagnosed as having torn all three of the major hip muscles loose from the bones (he's been in agony for years and the doctors just kept shooting cortisone and telling him the pain was in his spine). The doc who finally figured it out said he usually only sees injuries like this in people who are in high-speed accidents, but as soon as he found out my dad has hemochromatosis he said, "Oh, yeah. That'd do it."

You can buy over the counter iron pills, right? Do you need very high doses, is that why it needs to be a prescription?

he put me on them to get it going in a hurry i guess, two a day...but eventually cut to one. i doubt i will have to stay on them, can probably eventually go to OTC.
but my feritin level was 2-and 15 is considered as low! just had blood drawn again, so we'll see where it's at after a week.
he recommended i see an ob/gyn about an endometrial ablation. he said 'you are done with kids, right'? oh, hell yes!