star0210
Well-Known Member
My ferritin is at 20 but my iron serum is at 91 and my hemoglobin at 13.7 and hematocrit at 41.1.
Won't an iron infusion raise everything (except ferritin) too much?
I have an apt with my primary tomorrow and I want to discuss this with her...so I wanted to know how you all approach this with your doctors. My hematologist only cares about h&h levels.
I had an iron infusion in March of 2013... My ferritin was at 4, my iron was at 11, and my h&h we're both critically low....can't remember the numbers. This wasn't from my sleeve but from excessively heavy periods. I had a hysterectomy in Feb of 2013 and the infusion a month later. I had been a walking dead person basically for the whole year prior to that. Had even gone to the ER once after passing out 3 times back to back and hitting my head pretty hard on a windowsill. They said they couldn't find anything wrong with me. I asked them about my iron levels and the possibility of being anemic and they told me my levels were normal. I believed them and just kept trudging along. That was in early 2012. We didn't discover the anemia until my pre-op bloodwork for the hysterectomy. The heavy bleeding wasn't even WHY I was having the hysterectomy. That was a horrible year...so much of it I don't remember....but I DO remember feeling like I was literally freezing to death from the inside out and the days on end without sleeping because of symptoms similar to RLS. After that infusion kicked in, I was like a whole new person!
I don't ever want to get that bad again!
Won't an iron infusion raise everything (except ferritin) too much?
I have an apt with my primary tomorrow and I want to discuss this with her...so I wanted to know how you all approach this with your doctors. My hematologist only cares about h&h levels.
I had an iron infusion in March of 2013... My ferritin was at 4, my iron was at 11, and my h&h we're both critically low....can't remember the numbers. This wasn't from my sleeve but from excessively heavy periods. I had a hysterectomy in Feb of 2013 and the infusion a month later. I had been a walking dead person basically for the whole year prior to that. Had even gone to the ER once after passing out 3 times back to back and hitting my head pretty hard on a windowsill. They said they couldn't find anything wrong with me. I asked them about my iron levels and the possibility of being anemic and they told me my levels were normal. I believed them and just kept trudging along. That was in early 2012. We didn't discover the anemia until my pre-op bloodwork for the hysterectomy. The heavy bleeding wasn't even WHY I was having the hysterectomy. That was a horrible year...so much of it I don't remember....but I DO remember feeling like I was literally freezing to death from the inside out and the days on end without sleeping because of symptoms similar to RLS. After that infusion kicked in, I was like a whole new person!
I don't ever want to get that bad again!