Just wondering really. I've got a distinct pattern where my period week I'm mostly on the couch. I am so exhausted from a couple of days before and then have days of massive constant clots and the fatigue (mental and physical) crushes me.
My ferritin is low, my folate is low, but haemoglobin is great, at the higher end. So my gp says all fine and not to take iron and there's some cancer link which does scare me as a lot of hormonal cancer in women in my family.
My gynaecologist doesn't care. Transvaginal ultrasound fine.
I'm just so tired and wonder if a week slumped on the sofa will be damaging me from a sedentary lifestyle perspective?
Rest of the month energy isn't stunningly abundant or anything I still get absolutely wiped out but physically can do much more low impact stuff. I walk a decent amount as we live in a city, and go to one or two yoga classes a week that I get a lot of benefit from.
Is a balance of three weeks out of four of reasonable, low impact activity ok or what would you do?