Even when your kid moves out you never stop worrying. Kid that lives across the country for Uni is having some weird health problems. Her hair is falling out in huge clumps. She is freaking out. I’m freaking out. She has a Dr appointment but I have no doubt they will try to pass it off as stress
Hair loss is also experienced by many people some months after Covid.
She’s the only one in our family that has never had Covid as far as we know. She has never tested positive for it.
I just dropped her off earlier this week and already feel like I need to fly back out there to go the appt with her to make sure they really listen to her and don’t just try to do what Dr’s do to women all the time, and ignore them and their symptoms
Hair fall is a pretty major symptom of iron deficiency, which is ridiculously common in young women. In the past Drs have been very dismissive about low ferritin unless it also causes low haemoglobin. But they recently increased the level or iron that is deficiency level
The @shematologist.medsky.social is a great resource around low iron in women. I hope your daughter can find a good doctor and feel better soon
She was deficient but she has been monitored for the last two yrs and has been taking pretty strong iron supplements for that time. This just happened all of sudden starting about two weeks ago. It’s big clumps.
Poor thing, that must be so stressful for both of you
I just don’t want this to stress her out and be her main focus. She’s a teenager at Uni. She should be working hard in school but still having a great time and some fun. Having this on top of her other health issues (she has epilepsy) doesn’t help. I just want her to be able to have some normalcy