And then he was taken away twice by Ambulance. You too?

Henry

My grandfather began to suffer from a loss of strength around 01.05.2021, and as the Anaemia and CBC test results showed, Hemoglobin at that time was 80.

Medical Examinations and Initial Findings

Next came examinations by a hematologist:

• X-ray of the skull – normal
• FGDS – normal
• Colonoscopy – normal
• Myelogram – there are deviations, but nothing specific. They advised retaking it in 2 months.

Initial Treatment Plan

Treatment included:

• Vitamin B12 injections
• Durules and then Ferlatum
• Folic acid

Despite this, the weakness continued to grow.

My grandfather has had a pacemaker for 4 years now.

I also started having kidney problems in the spring.

Emergency Interventions

And then he was taken away twice by ambulance. Once to the therapy department and the second time to the cardiology department. In the cardiology department, they did it twice for blood transfusion because haemoglobin dropped below 70. After discharge, he has a strong loss of strength and swelling. CBC Doctors say it is cardiac swelling due to low haemoglobin, so the kidneys don’t work well.

Revised Treatment Plan

After Anaemia consultations with a cardiologist and nephrologist, the following treatment was prescribed:

• Diuver 20 mg in the morning and 20 mg at lunch
• Diacarb 2 times a day for 5 days
• Metoprolol 50 mg morning/evening
• Eliquis 2.5 mg in the evening
• Uperio 50 mg in the morning and evening
• Erythropoietin injections of 4000 IU every 3 days

After the indicated treatment, tests showed that it seemed to get better, but not for long. The swelling started to increase again, and weakness. We are taking a course on Diacarb again, but the Anaemia result is the same

as for the first time: no. And his voice became hoarse, sometimes to the point of being impossible to speak. We additionally had a consultation with a nephrologist and a haematologist. Doctors

They said that it might be stomach cancer, with such test results and hoarseness.

Results

FGDS was normal in the spring of 2021. Tumor markers were taken:

• Carcinoembryonic antigen – normal
• Cancer antigen CA 19-9 – normal
• Antigen CA 72-4 – in progress

At Grandpa’s:

• Iron 36.9 – above normal
• Ferritin – 308 – above normal
• Vitamin B12 – 2174, with the norm being 914. Much higher!

They said you can’t drip iron.

But Hemoglobin is only 73.

Seeking Answers

Tell me where to look for the cause, as doctors say, “CBC Blood leaks”? Why is vitamin B12 so high? Did they increase it with injections? What could cause hoarseness?

Thanks to everyone who read to the end!

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Aria

Personal hell ⁠ ⁠

I’ll try not to evoke pity; I’m just sharing. Maybe someone has encountered this, or it will just help someone.

Almost two years ago, they wanted to kill me. I’m a lively girl; I fought back but didn’t tell anyone. As a result, stress provoked two uterine bleedings and endless diarrhoea.

Struggles with Medical Professionals

I went to the doctors, but no one treated anything, and everyone thought I was attracting attention. So I went through three months until I fell unconscious at the front door, after which I called my mother and asked her to come.

There, of course, is a hospital and hemoglobin 62 with a norm of 120.

Everything would be fine, but no one found the main reason for the disaster; they just discharged me to die.

It didn’t get better; my mouth was full of blood, diarrhoea and the inability to function normally.

My mother left; she had her worries. I somehow started to get out with the help of yoga; it seemed that this horror was receding, and in December 2019, there was new bleeding after the dentist.

The Search for Answers

A series of doctors, frightening diagnoses and persistent diarrhoea. By some miracle, they thought to send me to a psychiatrist, who immediately determined everything – clinical depression and generalised anxiety disorder, which is where the autoimmune blood disease comes from, and an extremely rare one at that.

That’s it, friends!

Don’t be afraid to look for reasons.

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William J.

Everything must be done on time.

Hello everyone. I work in the palliative care department, but it is not a state institution but a semi-commercial one; if I may say so, it is possible to pay for a stay in the CBC Home Office department, and it is possible to be there for free. In general, any options are possible.

I was admitted to a 55-year-old patient with anaemia. Upon admission haemoglobin was 71 g / l; this is moderate anaemia, but you need to be on your guard. Diagnosis: stomach cancer with metastases to the liver.

Declining Condition

During a week of hospitalisation, haemoglobin dropped to 55 g / l, and a few days later, it became 43 g / l. When the woman was just admitted, it was possible to try intravenous iron. Still, relatives could not afford the drug since the average price, for example, 5 ampoules of Ferinject, is 4,000 rubles. Therefore, they brought 10 ampoules of Maltofer, which naturally did not help. The complexity of anaemia was also in the fact that it was not tested and treated from the beginning; that is, it was brought to a situation when it was about to become severe, and this isn’t easy to fix, especially with a CBC oncological diagnosis.

Then, when haemoglobin became 55, the question of a transfusion arose, but it was impossible to carry out in our department; there is no transfusion specialist, but there is one in the state hospice. As you can guess, the transfusion was never carried out because while the question of transporting the patient was being resolved with the head of the department, almost a week passed.

Critical Outcome

Organ hypoxia reached a critical point, and the body was exhausted. She was still transported to a state hospice, but while there and back, while they determined the blood type … in general, after 2 days, the woman died.

What is all this for? If you care about your loved ones, pressure the heads and chief doctors, ask other Anaemia doctors for a second test opinion on how best to do it, and read the CBC information online. So that you know, everything must be done on time.

Of course, any situation must be considered from different angles, but in this particular case, more modern and, most importantly, TIMELY treatment could have extended the patient’s life.