Around 12 or 13 years old
12 years old
- Shortness of breath / difficulty breathing
- Dizziness
- Muscle weakness
- Brain fog
- Memory problems
- Anxiety
- Heart flutters / abnormal heart rhythm
- Diarrhea
- Hair loss
- Fatigue / feeling tired
- Liver problems
- Other symptoms – I got the flu pretty much for a whole year, missed a lot of school due to it. The doctors had no idea why I was always so sick. They wondered if I had cancer. Until I was finally diagnosed.
The symptoms that affected me the most were diarrhea, which happened every single night. I would sit in the loo for hours. Also hair loss. I used to have such thick hair, [now] I hardly have any.
Yes I missed a lot of school.
I went to a natural place who figured it out and then the doctors also diagnosed it.
My ferritin level was around 600
No I haven’t done anything. The natural place helped me to lower the levels.
I don’t talk about it at all really. I don’t think people really would understand what it actually does to you.
I still get very tired, and I experience a lot of anxiety and heart flutters. My biggest symptom now is hair loss. Unsure how to fix this.
Just relax, research, and do the best you can to help yourself out.
I am a 20 year old Auckland girl who loves working, exercising and having a good laugh!