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xcziel · 3 months ago

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Hey saw your tags about anemia and still being anemic after taking supplements. And you may have tried this, but I got this tip from another tumblr user so I'm passing it on. Have you tried Iron Bisglyconate supplements? It's a different form of iron than typical supplements or RX supplements and it's much better on your stomach and more easily absorbed. And in my experience it worked when normal Ferrous Sulfate didn't.

I consulted my doctor and she went off and told me the correct dosage for me when I was severely anemic was 100mg/day but normally I take about 50mg now.

Just worth trying. For the record they don't know the cause of my anemia either but my mom has had the same problem her entire life. They just don't like when I tell them it has to be genetic.

I haven't tried bisglycinate - i've now got some tabs open for reasearch, thank you!

my Dr put me on 28mg heme polypeptide + polysaccharide iron complex every other day, which does seem to help a bit but not get me out of the zone?

after the one session of iron infusion last november, we seem to be just watching the hemoglobin go slowly back down. he seems to feel like if it gets too low again then the answer is just another infusion and has stopped really looking at causes/other options

i'm a bad case i guess because i'm also taking omeprazole and that inhibits absorption.

my new idea recently was to try a methylfolate supplement, even though my folate numbers are good, in case it was a lack of the right kind of folate that was inhibiting iron uptake (i don't get a lot of plant-derived vitamins) but it was *really* affecting my mood for the worse, so i had to stop. next appointment is soon, so we'll see in the bloodwork if it had any affect.

i'll ask him if trying another form of iron supplement might be worth looking at - maybe in addition?, because he didn't really offer a choice - just said "take this, it's easier on your stomach" (probably because the metformin is rough enough on my digestion)

#whatever it is that's wrong it's really just the red blood cells #the other numbers are mostly normal except the white blood cells will be elevated #i need to look up that other test the thebibliosphere was talking about having them run with regards to the folate #but since i quit taking the supplement my mood has swung back to being less bitchy and irritable #it's a noticeable difference and i don't want to go back to that ugh #it's just weird to be anemic because i eat plenty of meat - that's why i think it's tied to something found in plants #because my aspec supertaster ass hates vegetables so if there's a dietary 'hole' in my nutrition that's kinda got to be it?#dr really thought for a bit it was some kind of internal bleeding maybe but no real signs of that #found something in these newly opened tabs where someone was saying that shortness if breath was a major anemia sign #interesting that none of the drs ever pointed that out when that and the accelerated heartrate was what i went in for #back years ago now - like with covid i guess i understand that me getting woozy and having to sit down #walking across the parking lot or even in the shower in 2020-21 would look more like that rather than anemia #but i wish someone would have mentioned it #with the thyroid brain fog i didn't know i had at the time i would never have put that together #now i'm wondering again if the heart thing and the anemia are related rather than just being ling covid or if #the theoretical undiagnosed covid that kicked off the diabetes etc is also responsible for that too #so many wonder much ow lol

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