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I understand you are feeling anxious about the amount of blood tests you are having to take. As you have said, these blood tests are important because they help to keep a check on your health because of your medication.
I haven't had personal experience of having frequent blood tests but I hope you can be reassured that the medical professionals have a great deal of experience and would never do anything to put you at risk. But because you are worried about this, I was wondering if you could talk to your doctor? Your doctor will be the best person to tell you if you need more blood tests and if they will affect you. Do you think you could have that conversation them?
I understand that you're worried about having multiple blood tests to monitor your health because you're on medication, but you really don't need to be
I completely agree with @Kat. The doctors that you will have and will be talking to are proffessionally trained individuals who have a lot of experience under their belt and will never put you in any danger or any risks to your health. In fact, the reason of your multiple blood tests will be to do with the complete opposite - making sure you're healthy and safe, and like you said to make sure that you're medication isn't affecting you're health
Also, i will admit that i am no trained individual in the world of blood tests, but im 99% positive that the amount of blood that you lose from blood tests is a very minuscule amount, so you're body will hardly notice the difference and you will feel tiny to no side effects from it all.
But also,like Kat said. if you would feel up to it, it would probably be a good idea to discuss how you are feeling about the blood tests and any concerns you may have with the doctors, so that they can help address your concerns and help you feel less anxious about the whole aspect.
Hope this helps at all.
Wishing you the best, sending lots of virtual hugs your way.
There’s nothing to worry about when having a blood test most people have between 5 and 10ml of blood taken which is around only 0.1% of the whole blood body volume - most often by the time a new blood tests comes round you’ve already replaced thsg blood lost .
I know the tubes seem fairly big but in reality they only hold around 1.5ml/2ml
Most likely when they do your blood tests they would look at anemia levels as that’s looked at when they do a Red blood cell count . so if for any reason the amount of blood taken did affect you they would be able to see
I hope that’s helped reassure you a little bit and don’t forget you can always speak to the GP or nurse if your worried
If you have any concerns though I’m sure your doctor or nurse will be able to talk to you about it xx