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Allhumdolillah! I am at a much better place since my last post with series of lab tests, utlrasounds, a mammogram and some other really scary tests, and a gut wrenching anxiety of results. I am doing well thankfully everything was clear except 4.2 levels of iron storage i.e. ferritin with vitamin d3 deficiency. These deficiencies are now on their way to recovery but ferritin could take 6-8 months before it gets better. These results were concerning to my gynecologist as I am in perimenopause. in this phase progesterone and estrogen which are considered crucial hormones for mental, physical and emotional health are changing and will ultimately stop. This is a significant time in a woman’s life as her entire being is changing amidst the fears of breast or ovarian cancers. God forbid. Even writing these words are sending chills down my spine. So every test result was monitored with different angle, nothing was left to chance. Praying, crying I came through! But this episode has prob...