Iron deficiency, ferritin, as it relates to anxiety, panic, and depression.

Does it really matter if your hematocrit is low? Let me share with you a case that came into my office today and how to avoid falling into the same trap that she did with her cbc. Hematocrit is a common test that's included in a cbc. It measures the percentage of red blood cells in your blood. Your body will do everything it can to keep your hematocrit levels normal for as long as possible. I run into a lot of doctors who say, I don't worry so much about hematocrit. It's hemoglobin that I care most about. I don't want my doct to not care if any of my numbers are abnormal. You shouldn't have to wait for everything to be really extremely abnormal to start combating your symptoms. So let me tell you about this patient. She had numbness and tingling in her fingers and hands, off the chart, fatigue. She had shortness of breath that was giving her panic and anxiety. And she had this other symptom that I bet you have never heard of associated with an imbalance in your hematocrit before, but it's actually kind of common. Who here knows what deci deos mira means? This is the unusual enjoyment of the smell of things like gasoline. And it's actually quite common in the condition that this doctor missed. Let's go back to the labs. We have hematocrit, which is incredibly low. Reference range of 35 to 49. And it was dropping over time. When we tested ferritin, it was three. This woman was in stage three of iron deficiency anemia. Anyone relate to.