Are pain in joints and pain during intercourse be the symptoms of thalassemia?
Patient: my boyfriend has thalassemia he was just diagnosted with it yesterday. the hemotoligist said it was rare he only a few other cases? his mother has it which is obvioulsy where he got it. he has severe joint pain and swelling in his hands and joint areas. And also it affects intercourse it is extremely painful and basically takes all the energy from him to the point of trouble breathing and it's like it sucks the life out of him. are these things normal, and what should he do about the pain? anything would help as the doctor yesterday didn't explain anything just said this is what you have and took more blood.  thank you Doctor: HIWell come to HCBIn Thalassemia such pain may be possible some time after some exertion because this demands more oxygen while patient is not having enough of oxygen in blood and this could cause pain in tissues but this manifestation is not common still one has to be careful, hope this information helps, take care.