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I was rejected at the blood donor center for the first time in my life several months before I started having PMR symptoms. Apparently my iron was too low. This was confirmed by the blood test when the doctor was trying to diagnose me. She wanted to send me for a colonoscopy, but I found information online about PMR causing an imbalance in the natural destruction of red blood cells that can cause the same anemia.
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I was able to donate without issue a few weeks before symptoms started, but once I was bad enough to first go to the doctor my bloodwork showed I was anemic (hemoglobin low). I wasn’t sure if that was a result of not recovering from donation or a result of PMR, but thinking now it was from PMR. My CBC blood work is still abnormal (platelets, RBCs, neutrophils) but rheumatologist says that’s likely down to the prednisone. I was instructed to take Vitamin B12, and I have been, but no idea if that is what improved my hemoglobin
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I found that Ibuprofin also destroys red bloos cells faster than your body can replenish them.