This may be a silly Question!

SmilingBluEyes · Jul 11, 2003

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000569.htm

Here is a good article discussing this ailment and its causes. Good luck to you!!!

suehp · Jul 11, 2003

Thanks for that Smiling Blue Eyes - really appreciate it.

Looked on that site and it was very helpful - seems that I have almost all of the symptoms too plus have had 2 Smears come back abnormal.

So maybe i can stop thinking the worst for the timebeing!!!

Thanks again

Sue:)

realnursealso/LPN, LPN · Jul 12, 2003

This maybe way off track for you, but my blood reacts with the ..gosh can't remember the stuff in the bottom of the tube.....citrate? maybe..any how....my blood reacts with it and my platelets clump together and when the machine tries to count them it says I don't have enough. I went through some very scarey, nurse imagination days til i went to a hemotologist and she told me the first thing they do when someone comes in with a diagnosis of a low platelet count , she draws the blood in a empty tube and runs the cbc right away. When mine was done I was aok. My own doc at the time was not aware of this. I had to have cbc's drawn 4 times then..before he called me and scared me half to death and told me I didn't have enough platelets. So I am crossing my fingers that it will be a simple explanation for you also. Hugs across the ocean.

dosamigos76, RN · Jul 12, 2003

SueIP,

Will keep you in my prayers and hope that they aren't necessary. Please keep us updated.

Cheryl

suehp · Jul 12, 2003

This maybe way off track for you, but my blood reacts with the ..gosh can't remember the stuff in the bottom of the tube.....citrate? maybe..any how....my blood reacts with it and my platelets clump together and when the machine tries to count them it says I don't have enough. I went through some very scarey, nurse imagination days til i went to a hemotologist and she told me the first thing they do when someone comes in with a diagnosis of a low platelet count , she draws the blood in a empty tube and runs the cbc right away. When mine was done I was aok. My own doc at the time was not aware of this. I had to have cbc's drawn 4 times then..before he called me and scared me half to death and told me I didn't have enough platelets. So I am crossing my fingers that it will be a simple explanation for you also. Hugs across the ocean.

Thanks for that - I am having repeat bloods done on the 21st, then I have to wait 5 whole days for the results!!!

Now I have slept on it I feel more postive, but after a long day in work - am absolutely kncakered!!

Thanks also to Cheryl - I will let you know what happens!

Sue :)

Jennerizer, ASN, RN · Jul 13, 2003

I was diagnosed with PA back in 1996. I've never had a pap smear come back abnormal. My main symptom was that I was tired all the time....extremely tired. I would wake up after 8 hours of sleep & be more tired then when I went to bed. There is no history of it in my family. I have had thyroid problems since I was a kid so the connection with PA is that they both are autoimmune diseases & it is not uncommon to have more than one autoimmune disease (I'm hoping these are the only two I have). I get a b12 shot every 3 to 4 weeks & everything is fine.

Hope everything works out for you.

Spaniel gal · Jul 13, 2003

I was diagnosed with PA in 1996, after losing weight, having weird dizzy spells, falling over etc. also have thyroid problems and bowel problems (all 3 being autoimmune diseases)

like Jennerizer it was being so,so tired all the time i could easily sleep for 14 hours!

My Doc told my 97% of PA suffers are 40+ year old women with blue/green eyes. which so far i found true! and strange!

I was 16 with green eyes, im ok now just suffer with cramps in my legs

I hope everything gets sorted, its horrible waiting.

Ruby

suehp · Jul 18, 2003

Well I went for a HVS today, and while I was there I asked about my blood results - apparently my Platelet count was 104.

I am going for repeat bloods on Monday so will let you know when I have the results and what the Doc says!!

Sue

litepath · Jul 17, 2004

"Pernicious anemia occurs as a relatively common adult form of anemia that is associated with gastric atrophy and a loss of IF production and as a rare congenital autosomal recessive form in which IF production is lacking without gastric atrophy.

The disease was named pernicious anemia because it was fatal before treatment became available, first as liver therapy and, subsequently, as purified vitamin B-12. The term pernicious is no longer appropriate, but it is retained for historical reasons"

~From emedicine.com~