#i'm not anemic though funnily enough? like my hemoglobin b is actually up a bit

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went to the doctor back in like... august and got put on 2 iron tablets a day because my iron levels were 7 μmol/L (for women it should be between 11-29 μmol/L) and came back iirc a month later to check up how it was going. It was 10 μmol/L and my doctor said my iron wasn't as high as she'd have expected it to have gotten, and that I might have issues with absorbing iron, and perhaps should be getting iron infusions to help me out, but we agreed to wait a little longer to see if my iron levels would increase and normalize. I just had my blood tested today, like 6 months later (life gets in the way sometimes)... and my iron levels are 4 μmol/L. FOUR. I've been on two iron tablets a day for like six months (except for around 2 weeks when I ran out) but it has NEVER been this low before. No fucking wonder I'm so tired and cold all the time. I'm seeing my doctor next week about it, but I can't imagine she's gonna be happy about that result either lmao