Why am I always sick?

And, Mik e, you forgot about the smoking and the insomnia.

Nude: I'm not unhappy, but I'm worried that there is scientific research proving that I personally am fucked in the head ;)

Melissa: Almost all of my illnesses have resulted in another bout of bronchitis, unrelated to, say, strep or a head cold, so maybe that's a chronic symptom. I have a lot of headaches related to nothing, I used to be on medication for it. I bruise extremely easily, often times I get bruises without actually getting hit at all. I'm anemic, can't process iron at all...

I'd back up Tracer's sarcasm, but this is some serious shit. Be happy you're not a midget with a raspy voice.

Ah, but who can resist sarcasm - chalk it up to thin blood, get a full-on transfusion, throw in a couple kidneys, and put down a deposit on an air tank. Practice your tough talk to impress & scare potential grandchildren as you partake of fags and a purty plastic air mask. See Harvey Feirstein to get the rasp down right.

Anyhow.

Anthony: My mom told me to look into sick building syndrome too. Basaically, when I first started getting sick I worked in a place that I later found out got condemned because of all the aspestos (SP?) in the building. I currently work in a very dusty basement, which is filled with leaks from the completely crap Balducci's on top of us, so it's always damp, plus loads of chemicals from the construction on the offices we're about to move into upstairs. I've been here for about two years (temporary move to illegal basement my ass) and it's quite true that my building could literally be making me very ill, between all the mold that must be in the ceiling and all the chemicals and such.

Kris: I generally do get exercise but it doesn't seem to help that much. I do notice I get ill more often if I'm slacking off, so that's actually not a bad idea at all.

Paul: I have extremely bad blood. I'm anemic and it's permanent, not the sort of "You aren't eating right, damnit" anemic a lot of people get. It's just a permanent condition, there's soemthing wrong that was explained to me once that my blood doesn't take up iron properly and it just doesn't get put into my body. I don't know what else could be wrong though. I know when I get blood tests at the gyno, they do this thing where they just prick your finger and take a sample off that, but my circ is so bad that it'll take like five minutes to get enough blood, it's pretty funny.

On a related note, my dad has diabetes, could constant sickness be related to a blood disorder like that? He was diagnosed very recently but apparently had it for a while; if he hadn't switched doctors and had a proper one, not our jackassed ones that don't even do tests, he could've been killed because it was eating his system alive because he wasn't eating properly, not knowing something was wrong, and he was just wasting away, it was truly bizarre.

Kris: I have not been tested, that's a good idea actually, thank you.

Well, with all due respect, just because some folks who smoke never get sick, it doesn't mean you can rule out smoking as the culprit in your case. Our genes wire us up to react to certain things given certain stimuli and not to react as quickly to other stimuli. And as we get older, the things we did that didn't use to take a toll on our bodies finally start to do that. There. I tried to be as unsarcastic as possible.

The best and obvious answer is to go see a doctor. Um, basically, what joey bag a donuts said.

ANyhow, the problems of the past are not affecting me anymore. The only health problem I have now besides massive fatigue syndrome is the fact that I've been on my period for a month, but I doubt that's anything.