Thanks
I'm in flare, have been for...15months or so, plus defo not absorbing properly!
I emailed the Gastro to ask what to do, I'm a little dubious of tablets, would I absorb them any better than food? Infusions sound friendlier and quicker!
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3? for three years? thats crazy.Some meds also interfere with iron absorption - pariet (rabeprazole) being one of them that many here take. My ferritin was down to 3 quite regularly over a three year course. Lots of blood transfusions and iron infusions despite a diet very heavy in red meat and no apparent bleeding. No idea what changed, but it has now been almost a year since I have needed blood or iron and all my numbers are at the top end of normal.
doctors argue amongst themselves all the time so, like in the show HOUSE, next time you see your doc dont be afraid to ask where iron goes to your stores or to your blood? ... and hows it spent?.. i think iron stores are used to make hemoglobin? hows your hemoglobin?I am less than impressed...
Phoned the GI sec as he has been ignoring my email, she says she'll ask him but may be next week before I get a response...
So I went to see my GP who said its just my iron stores that are low, my blood iron is in normal limits but significantly down on the last one (i did refrain from asking her where she thought blood iron came from when you had NOTHING left in stores) she wants me to be tested for vitamin D deficiency, fab, so we're NOT treating a problem we know is there but we ARE looking for a new one...
Needless to say, self medication begins tomorrow...
xxx