Do You Know Your Blood Type?

Just one of those odd thoughts. It has crossed my mind before but I'm re-watching Breaking Bad and the episode with all the characters blood types, and that Jesse didn't know his, struck me to create this, mostly probably, worthless thread.

I have no clue what mine is but I've been lucky, never been in a hospital for more than a hour or so. No major medical traumas in my life.

It might behoove me to try and find out but I'm lazy. Who says behoove these days, anyway, and what the hell does that actually mean? Meh, questions for another thread.

Yes, I do. AB- Found out during my first pregnancy.

I'm in my mid 50's and no, I don't. Good question.

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

i did, i wanted to know if i was O-

I was AB -

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

If you want to know, just go and donate some blood. They will probably give you a color coded card with all of your details on it.

It is a good thing to know.

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a reply to: intrepid

B+, we tested our blood in Biology class in High School.

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Funny You Ask.
I Thought God Was A Myth.. That Is Until I Found Out I Was Owe Positivie. Truly Am.
However... I'm Poor. And I Think It's Terrible To Owe.

O+

Learned this decades ago when I joined the US Navy.

Wow, quick thread. Yeah, I'll have to go see a doc sometime in the near future and if I remember, I'll ask them to check it out.

At nearly fifty years old I probably should know but as I said, I've never been in a hospital for more than delivering pizzas, really.

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

I think they have little kits you can buy at any drug store to test yourself and find out.

a reply to: eriktheawful

Yes they do!

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

I think any woman who has ever had a kid will know. We have to be typed to determine if we have a risk of rH factor problems.

But I knew mine before then. We had a lab in middle school where they let us blood type ourselves. I was pretty obviously O- then, and the tests during pregnancy only confirmed that.

I have no clue, and I gotta say I'm a bit ashamed of that fact.

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

Some more stats on blood type!
Blood type Percent of Americans with this type Who can receive this type
O+ 37% O+, A+, B+, AB+
O– 6 All blood types
A+ 34 A+, AB+
A– 6 A+, A–, AB+, AB–
B+ 10 B+, AB+
B– 2 B+, B–, AB+, AB–
AB+ 4 AB+
AB– 1 AB+, AB–
One more thing to point out.
Blood type is inherited, just like eye color.

Yes, it is inherited. I am the only O- in my immediate family. Everyone else is O+ positive which means my parents both carried the gene for negative, and I got to be the lucky one who got two recessives.

And despite the fact that my husband is also negative, A-, they still made me get the Rhogam shot!

I guess all three of us: me, husband, son, are negative folks.

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

I'm glad you posted this, I don't know mine and I've been thinking about it a lot lately. I'm going to be 58 this year and it seems to me a bit absurd that I have never been told what mine is. I mean, I have had plenty of blood work done for various reasons but never have I heard. I didn't know you could get a test at the drug store.

a reply to: ketsuko
Here is what blood type A means!

General personality of people who have type A blood

—Consider things carefully
—Can understand other people’s feelings easily
—Kind
—Good at hospitality
—Don’t express themselves in order to avoid possible quarrel
—Do things carefully and steadily, and don’t take the next step if they are not satisfied
—Honor student types who don’t go off the rail
—Fastidious
—Big on cleanliness
—Can be calm even when accidents happen
—Strong on taking responsibility
—Hard workers
—Safe drivers
Look your meaning up!
Source www.japantoday.com...

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

I've been told by my "sources" that I am RH negative blood type AKA the Annunaki/Reptillian Shapeshifters - sorry humans. I'm special ;P (I'm kidding, don't get your panties in a bunch, bud)

a reply to: TheSpanishArcher

Did you know your blood type is for life? But there can be a change in your type. A common cause in blood type change is a bone marrow transplant.

I am AB- as well.
Learned during a biology class and confirmed during donation.