I posted last night that my 14 year old had been really tired and pale so i took her to the doctor thinkinh she would need iron tablets. We had the blood test at 11 ish and around sic the out of hours gp called to say that the lab had called them with the test results and then asked if she was conscious and was she visibly bleeding - obvsiously she was conscious and not visibly bleeding!
Even so they said we needed to take her up to the walk in centre at the hospital so they could “see if she was stable”. So we rushed up there thinking something awful was going on only to be in a queue for 3 hours and she had her vitals done. Then they said right shes ok over night (it was at least midnight at this point) but we needed to call gp first thing ro find out next steps. Oh they said she is severly anemic and has no meausrable folate a a few other things.
so this morning i called the gp and told them the recptionsit originally booked us a phone call tomorrow but then a couple of hours later called and said the doctor had actually seen the blood results now and could we go straight in. So we rushed off up there to be told again she is anemic and the results are just funky so she has got iron tablers but shes also got this urgent refferal to peadiatrics. The doctor said the wait was a maximum two weeks but she thinkins it will be alot less. So she was going to call them. She was checking all of my daughter glands asking about bruising and various other things. She said since her vitals are stable she didnt need to rush to hospital today but she did need to be seen urgently as she doesnt think the anemia would be caused by diet and my duaghter has light periods.
obviously my mind is screaming now but i was ij the room with my daughter who only 14 but also autistic - which is paet of the problem she doesnt describe symptoms well. So i couldnt just ask about my concerns outright it would have caused a major issue for my daughter.
the blood tests that i can remember were
iron 2
heamagolbin 8
platlets - slightly raised but cant rmemember a numbet
ferritin 13
and folate was too low to meausre so she said thats under 2
oh her b12 was high.
has anyone had this i was thibking simple anemia but the doctor seemed pretty sure this was being caused by an underlying issue and im quietyly freaking out while pretending not to in from of my dd.
i am obviosuly thinking what if its some kind of cancer because rhats the bog one everyone knwos about isnt it but i know there are so many other things it could be.
has anyone had this sort of thing? This referral how long are we talking the doctor seemed to think very soon but refferals in my experience are a long while even if or seems urgent.
any advice or chat appreicated im just sitting on the couch with a frozen smile trying to to freak out now!