I've made a post about my sclera being blue and fingernails being blue and pale, toenails having beau's lines(they are gone now) and I went to the optometrist a few days ago. She checked my vision and it is perdect. As I thought, she said it is something systemic that is causing it. She said to go get my thyroid checked,asked if I was anemic and to go get my iron levels checked. I want to mention that I was vegetarian for about a year and a half and raw vegan for a year/under a year(can't remember)(while not meeting my caloric needs severely).She also asked if I had any heart problems when I was a baby, but I was born healthy according to my mom. The doctor mentioned heart murmurs. Anyways, I will be seeing my family physician next week and want to know what I should get tested. In my vegetarian days I had panic attacks and heart palpitations and had my heart checked, everything was normal. Any vitamins, minerals specifically? Any other things to get tested?
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If you're going to get a bunch of things tested anyway, it's probably not a bad idea to throw in a Vit D test. I won't go so far as to say it is the cause of your problem, but I think it's a good thing to know. |
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Your optometrist was right. The obvious one to check here is iron. You're a premenopausal female and were a vegan, both are risk factors for iron deficiency. Start with these:
Thyroid: As a first test, thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) is fine. Inflammation:
Nice to haves: Calcidiol (25-hydroxyvitamin-D) |
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