Very nose weary.....
Feb. 17th, 2007 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalWell, if my daily nosebleeds indicate anything, methinks I've been in a perpetual state of PMS this month.....which would explain why nothing fits. Ahh, the wonderful world of stress on hormones.
I have concluded one thing though --- I think I've been seriously calcium and vitamin D deficient for most of my life. Which, the calcium I already knew since I was lactose intolerant before the invention of lactaid pills and had severe creases and divots in my fingernails growing up. The vitamin D, I know I should have gotten enough sunshine to have that, but yet, I begin to wonder if my chronic undiagnosed corn allergy altered it or something.
Why do I think this? Well, ever since I started taking Vitamin D last year (and then my corn free calcium vitamin D supplement that I finally found) I've noticed two things: 1) most of my depression has alleviated and 2) my nosebleeds end in under ten minutes. Sometimes in less than five.
Quite frankly, this is a miracle. I've had nosebleeds since I was eight years old. And I'm not talking about "oh, I got hit in the face" or "a few specks of blood". I'm talking about standing in a store with no one near me and my nose erupting in a gush that lasts for over thirty minutes despite every technique known to man including cold packs, pressure, etc. Heck, I don't think I ever had one that didn't last at least twenty minutes.
And yeah, it would always take me some time for small cuts to stop bleeding as well, but I never knew that was anything big because my mom was the same way (we found out a few years she has a clotting deficiency so...). And no, I was not one of those vegetable averse childdren (fruit averse, yes, vegetable, no. I never could get enough veggies) so it was Vitamin K.
Sigh, I guess shorter nosebleeds are worth the gassiness of taking calcium supplements. Though, I admit, the lack of corn makes the gassiness at least not be physically painful like when I was a kid and would refuse to take the supplements my mom used to get for me.
I have concluded one thing though --- I think I've been seriously calcium and vitamin D deficient for most of my life. Which, the calcium I already knew since I was lactose intolerant before the invention of lactaid pills and had severe creases and divots in my fingernails growing up. The vitamin D, I know I should have gotten enough sunshine to have that, but yet, I begin to wonder if my chronic undiagnosed corn allergy altered it or something.
Why do I think this? Well, ever since I started taking Vitamin D last year (and then my corn free calcium vitamin D supplement that I finally found) I've noticed two things: 1) most of my depression has alleviated and 2) my nosebleeds end in under ten minutes. Sometimes in less than five.
Quite frankly, this is a miracle. I've had nosebleeds since I was eight years old. And I'm not talking about "oh, I got hit in the face" or "a few specks of blood". I'm talking about standing in a store with no one near me and my nose erupting in a gush that lasts for over thirty minutes despite every technique known to man including cold packs, pressure, etc. Heck, I don't think I ever had one that didn't last at least twenty minutes.
And yeah, it would always take me some time for small cuts to stop bleeding as well, but I never knew that was anything big because my mom was the same way (we found out a few years she has a clotting deficiency so...). And no, I was not one of those vegetable averse childdren (fruit averse, yes, vegetable, no. I never could get enough veggies) so it was Vitamin K.
Sigh, I guess shorter nosebleeds are worth the gassiness of taking calcium supplements. Though, I admit, the lack of corn makes the gassiness at least not be physically painful like when I was a kid and would refuse to take the supplements my mom used to get for me.