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**MARMELADINA** · 01-09-2011, 12:01 PM

Thanks for posting that, Dry.

This was the first thing I thought of when Ti said it could take several years to get a proper diagnosis. It could have totally been misdiagnosed all those years as Anemia.

They should have been looking for the cause of the anemia all along. Unless she had pernicious anemia (which is rare), there is generally an underlying condition causing the anemia. Anemia by itself is not (should not be) a diagnosis, especially in a young, supposedly healthy person/athlete.

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MARMELADINA Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 427 Senior Member	Thanks for posting that, Dry. This was the first thing I thought of when Ti said it could take several years to get a proper diagnosis. It could have totally been misdiagnosed all those years as Anemia. They should have been looking for the cause of the anemia all along. Unless she had pernicious anemia (which is rare), there is generally an underlying condition causing the anemia. Anemia by itself is not (should not be) a diagnosis, especially in a young, supposedly healthy person/athlete.
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