CKD and Anaemia
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Good Morning.
I wonder if anyone has had experience of taking a course of folic acid tablets followed by Vitamin B12 injections? This was prescribed for me to improve the CKD related anaemia I have. I already take an iron supplement but apparently, to make red blood cells, you also need folic acid and Vitamin C, which you don't do so well if you have CKD. I have completed the course of both but new blood tests show not much improvement in my haemoglobin level. Does anyone know what is the next step?
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I have been taking iron tablets twice a day for a couple of years and at first, the iron did the trick and my haemoglobin got better. Now however, my iron store (ferritin) is high but I'm not absorbing it as well. The consultant thought that I might be short of Vitamin B12 and Folic acid and tests showed that I was so I had to take folic acid for 6 weeks followed by a course of Vitamin B12 injections- about 6 in all over two weeks. This did bring those levels up to normal but my Hb was only very slightly improved.
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. Jackie
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Mine is 24 and I'm quite well apart rom the anaemia that comes with tiredness and a rather greater tendency to fight off infections much more slowly. I'm in Kent and 74. Mine started with a uric acid stone in the ureter that surgeons pushed back into my kidney by mistake and then couldn't get out. They tried lithotripsy which didn't work and ended up blasting it from the inside with a laser. It didn't do me much good! Hope you continue to feel well.
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