u/ActuallyCMe — reddlx

so basically i have lived with my new roommate for 3 months, she’s great, we are already really good friends and i love her.

tonight, we were out at a bar with some friends and a guy showed up with them tha she kinda knew but i didn’t know. i ended up talking and joking with him a lot for most of the night which i thought was kinda obvious. but then right before we were leaving the bar my friend/roommate pulled him away and asked him to come home with her (to our apt). she asked me if it was okay and i said yes but i was obviously a bit upset. granted, we’ve only known each other for a few months, don’t know this man super well, and we were in a group the whole night- i also didn’t explicitly tell her i was into him.

i have some trauma with men and dating, specifically old friends hitting on men they knew i was into etc, which my roommate does not know, ill give her that. it really upset me though. am i overreacting?? should i say anything? this is the first time ive been put off by something she’s done and other than this i have no reason to have a problem with her. she’s not male centered and she was really drunk. but to me it seemed obvious me and him were vibing and it felt really sudden that she asked him to come home with her. i don’t know what to think.

so for some context: i “used” to be anemic in my mid teen years when my periods were really bad. i would bruise easily, get dizzy after workouts and in the shower, eat ice, etc etc.

it kinda “went away” and eventually i started taking birth control which really helped with my heavy periods and blood loss. since then i haven’t really gotten blood work that checked my iron levels until last week. i’m attaching an image of my results, but my TIBC was superrr high as well as my UIBC. while my ferritin was low as well as my b12 levels.

i sent the results to my doctor and she prescribed me 5000mg of b12 and an Iron + Vitamin C supplement. I’ve been taking that for a week now and will probably go back in a month to get blood work again. she also never said anything specific about anemia in her message to me, but from what i’ve gathered, these are “anemia numbers” unless i’m wrong?

my main question here is, i don’t feel like my iron is low? i generally have energy, i don’t get dizzy, crave ice, all the textbook symptoms i had before. my periods aren’t bad anymore, etc. i do bruise easily but that’s probably all i REALLY noticed. i’m sure im more tired than normal but honestly im a tired person lol.

has anyone had numbers similar to this before, or a similar journey?