#mcas

🔥 psa for anyone taking quercetin on a regular basis 🔥 this may be common knowledge and just previously unknown to me, but i've just today discovered that quercetin chelates iron/blocks iron absorption and can lead to anaemia and/or low ferritin levels. so if you're taking it regularly, please have things checked! (and if ferritin is low enough, just stopping quercetin won't be enough to bring it up and possibly neither will otc iron supplements, so please do get some numbers / help if necessary) i've just been in tears from finding this out as quercetin is one of the few things that helps me at all, and given i have no medical care, one of the few things i can access. i've been taking a decent dose daily for the past ... 13 years? but my ferritin was on the floor at my last blood test a year ago (ofc i couldn't find anyone to do anything about that). and i can't even take oral iron, not that it would help if i could, given my levels, but. yes. yay take care people and good luck #MCAS #POTS #hEDS #LongCovid #allergies

Es tut mir so gut, draußen unterwegs zu sein. Aber es kostet meinen Körper so viel Kraft. Es ist, als bräuchte ich unglaublich viel Kraft, mich aufrecht zu halten. Die Muskeln müssen so irre viel arbeiten. Was für Dreckskrankheiten sind das bloß, verdammte Hacke! #MEcfs #POTS #CCI #MCAS