Eating iron rich foods like liver or liver pate once a week plus other red meat, pumpkin seeds and dark chocolate, plus daily orange juice or other vitamin C rich drink can help improve iron absorption
This is interesting because I have noticed that many patients with Hashimoto’s disease and hypothyroidism, start to feel worse when their ferritin drops below 80 and usually there is hair loss when it drops below 50.
Thyroid disease is as much about optimising vitamins as thyroid hormones
It seems much harder to get ferritin issues resolved on NHS. My own is often low and I cannot tolerate oral iron so have to keep going until it’s below 10 for a transfusion. It’s less an a year since my last transfusion and despite eating an iron rich diet is currently 13. Got to wait 6-12months for another test. If it’s low enough I will get another infusion. Neither the GP or Haematology at the hospital consider a full iron panel necessary. This may be a postcode thing or NHS wide. It may be you need to have private testing and buy iron supplement yourself. Good luck, I hope you get sorted soon.
Im also always dealing with constant low iron due to inflammation and I found that I can take Vitron-C Iron without feeling ill and I also test myself and put results here for opinions because my doctor is so freaking useless when it comes to testing iron or vitamin D …. unless I test it myself and take results into her which she then turns around and retests the iron panel all over again even though her and I use the exact same lab company…. you can’t make this up!
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