Advisory Board June 12, 2024
Ann Malik’s malaise and fatigue were initially attributed to mild anemia and stress by doctors, but as her condition worsened, Malik ended up in the hospital where doctors found that the root cause of her symptoms was much worse, Sandra Boodman reports for the Washington Post.
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Initially, the symptoms Malik was experiencing were hard to define, she said.
“I had this feeling that something was wrong with me,” she said. Initially, her family physician attributed her malaise and fatigue to mild anemia, and while taking iron supplements appeared to reverse her iron deficiency, the malaise got worse. Malik said she remembered lying in bed, staring at the...