A Story of Iron

Soooo I'm kinda sitting here thinking about anaemia, here we go...

The thing i like about being iron deficient is that you get tired easily. Which means, when it's 10:00pm at night, you want to crawl into bed and sleep a decent night's sleep! Which also means that the bad thing about being iron SUFFICIENT is that in the late hours of the night and early hours of the morning i am left sitting WIDE awake wondering what i can do to pass the time, when quite clearly, i SHOULD be sleeping!

The bad thing about being iron deficient is that although sleeping comes naturally, i'm often left WANTING to sleep but being unable to because the lack of iron in my blood leaves me with RLS (Restless Leg Syndrome).

RLS is a condition where you are unable to relax your legs and keep them still, you are constantly changing positions of the way your legs lay and not because you want to but just because they won't stay still, sometimes even creating a 'creepy, crawley' feeling all over your legs. It's frustrating especially when the lack of iron in your blood is making you sleepy! Eventually after a couple of restless nights sleep, you just fall asleep from tiredness.

All this because of little iron in the blood!

I don't understand the connection between cruching ice, RLS and low iron but for some reason, it causes those things!!!