Hi all
Here again asking probably a similar question to one a few months ago
I feel I have some issues with iron. My bloods are in normal limits with very low ferritin reading, but I’m having increasingly significant hair loss, fatigue, shortness of breath (all chest x rays and scans clear), weakness, tremor, increase in anxiety and often pale.
I know it’s been said here not to supplement and I haven’t and I’ve eaten chicken liver pate etc. My ferritin increased to 70 but it’s fallen back again. Not sure what else to do to try and increase.
My gut feeling is that it’s impacting my health. I’ve yet to discuss results with GP but wondered if anyone could shed light? What supplement would increase Ferritin? I obviously don’t want to go over as I know how awful/ dangerous this can be, but my chicken liver pate plan isn’t working and I’m sure that the low ferritin is an issue. I have had considerable stress recently and wrangling with menopause symptoms and adjusting HRT but I’m instinctively feeling low ferritin is a problem for me.
My thyroid bloods T4 at 70% (8 hours post meds as was called in on the day for bloods so not able to do the usual protocol) TSH 0.4
No T3 done. Will test privately in a few weeks.
Bloods as follows:
FBC normal range
White cells 9.7 (3.7-11)
Red BC 4.43 (3.8-5.8)
Haemaglobin 141 g/L (115-165)
Haematocrit 0.43 (0.77-0.4)
MCV 97.6 fL (76-100)
MCH 31.8 pg (27-32)
MCHC 326 g/L (320-365)
RBC width 12.8 (11.5-14.5)
Platelet 306 (150-450)
B12 565 ng/L (160-820)
Ferritin 33 ug/L (10-291)
Folate 5.0 ug/L (4.1- )
I’d really appreciate any thoughts on what this suggests. Also, how can I increase ferritin with supplements (and what?) without pushing myself into haemacrotosis?
Thanks in advance, as always
🦋 x