Iron Deficiency Anaemia

I couldn't take iron tablets so my doctor ordered one iron infusion. My hemoglobin went from 8.6 to 11 in two weeks. I am also eating a very iron rich diet and my BP HAS stabilized. You might want to ask your doctor about this. Good luck.

Hi loverin12,

Would you say you have a reasonable diet?  By reasonable, I don't mean perfect, but do you reckon you get a fair variation of nutrients across your diet?  Or do you at least take vitamin or mineral supplements?  My thinking is that, if your Doc has given you these meds to boost iron levels / Haemoglobin, and your levels are still not improving, is it because your body doesn't have some other necessary vits or minerals.

How long have you been taking all these Iron related meds.  And have your blood levels not improved much, or at all since you started taking them?

There is another possibility, but I'll maybe come back to that later.

As long as you feel you enjoy (or put up with ! ) eating a fair range of foodstuffs, that's probably OK.

If you had said you hated all veg or all fruit, or you have a major gap in certain food types, then you might have a nutrient gap.  If you're at all unsure, then you could also include occasional mineral supplements, just so that you're definitely covering everything.  But if you're aiming to eat 3 times daily, then you're hopefully getting what you need.

If you've been on the iron meds from your Doc, then the rise in iron would be expected.

But, if your Hb is now 9.5, do you know what it was a month (or two months) ago, before you started the iron meds ?  Has it risen, or dropped ?

I meant to add (just in case you have to refer back to your Doc for any previous results), the other two results which would also be useful are Ferritin (Ferr), and Transferrin (Tferrin).

They might not have been included in your tests, but if you have them, then ideal.

Transferrin, and Ferritin, both before and after you started on the iron meds.