ok so i've posted about this on here twice before, and now i'm back again. i just want some reassurance again. i've been getting random bruises since around june last year. i think at first some of them were quite big, maybe the first 3 or 4, then they've been smaller since. shortly before this started, i had a blood test which said my iron levels were on the lower end, though not anemic. so i went to the gp for the bruises & he said he isn't worried and looked at the previous blood test and told me to just take iron pills. i've been taking iron pills, on and off, for about 2 or 3 months, sometimes i might miss a day or a few days, but i still get bruises. at one point i had about 7 small bruises [before i started the iron pills]. the weird thing is that it happens in waves, i will get a bruise or 2, then i don't get any for 3 or 4 weeks. so i feel like it could be hormonal. when it was still last year, a few times i also got these purple dots under the skin, i don't think i've had one of those in a while. so it's almost as if sometimes it's bad, and other times it's better. i also had a small red rash which stayed for a few months, then i started to get a similar red rash somewhere else, but both went away after i started taking the iron pills, and i think it was due to the iron pills as the first red rash was really there for a while, then they both went away at the same time. the gp said that he wasn't worried as if it was serious, the bruises would be large and painful and wouldn't heal for a while like 2 months, mine stop hurting around the 3rd day and take about 10-13 days to disappear. recently i watched a youtube video where the woman had several quite big bruises, i don't know what she had but i assume it was what i fear i have, but they looked different to mine. the other weird thing is that i've had 2 bruises now which look like a cluster of 2 or 3 smaller bruises. similar to the 1 i've attached. also had a bruise recently which was fairly small but turned really dark. these last few days i also feel like there's something wrong with my ears, though i don't think someone who isn't as aware of their body would notice, because i can't even describe what i feel, i'm not entirely sure i even actually feel anything. but right now i think these last 2 days i've had a slight headache at the back of my head & temples, right now i've had it for a few hours and my ears and face feel hot & my ears feel slightly muffled or something. sometimes when i'm sleep deprived i get the same symptoms, but i don't think i'm sleep deprived today or sleep deprived enough to get the symptoms. could this be dehydration? i definitely don't drink enough water. i've started sneezing recently & with the ear stuff i feel it could be the beginning of hay fever. i also notice my eyes always feel tired, even though i do spend most of the time on my laptop or phone, my eyes are always tired which makes me feel like i'm sleepy but my actual body feels fine. also i realized my nose is runny often & one nostril is always more open than the other. right now i'm in bed & it's not runny, but when i go outside or bend down it can get runny. also sometimes there are specs of blood, though i do clean my nose quite often, so i assume that's why. another thing is the edges of my eyes are slightly yellow, but i saw pictures of my eyes from 2 and a half years ago and they had the yellow around the edges, so i guess nothing has actually changed. i check my lymph nodes which don't seem to be swollen. just would like to hear that i'm not dying, and do iron pills just take a while to really start working? i've also started taking vitamin k2, i don't think my diet is great so i figured i'm probably deficient in everything really
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