Battle Axe

I'm right there with you fellow quilters. Out of energy, falling asleep in the middle of the day and once behind the wheel. Took out a mailbox and a street sign and narrowly missed the fire hydrant. The next day the Dr. changed my meds. Am better now.

I've been doing a lot of reading on energy levels and trying some new things. My latest thing is a Vit B 12 lozenge in the a.m. and then another just before noon. Seems to help.

There is supposedly a certain kind of magnesium that starts the metabolic process of making energy. My mind is blank right now.

One thing that I've got that I hope the rest of you don't have is hemochromotosis, (Iron Overload). Often called the Irish Disease. It doesn't show up in women until about 65 and in men about 60. The symptoms are the same for aging. A blood test for ferritin is what you need.

A regular person takes in 4 molecules of iron and uses one and excretes the other 3. People with Iron Overload, store the other 3 in places in their bodies that cause trouble: the liver, kidneys, heart, etc. If your ferritin level is over 1000 you are in organ damage territory. Normal is below 50. Mine was 1060. I had come down with colon cancer, hyperparathyroidism, restless leg syndrome, fatty liver and more.

This is a hereditary thing and my dr. never caught it. My brother's dr. in Calif. found it in him and he called and I tested positive for it too. There are 6 bad genes and I have two of them. But I don't have the two worst, just one of the worst and one of the minor ones.

I really thing that this hemochromotosis is what is the cause of all my ills. I am one quarter Irish.