(There's lots of posts here about intolerance to gluten and dairy but I can't really find anything about fructose.)
In an effort to improve my overall health and wellbeing, over the last 18 months or so I've been trying to increase my intake of fruits and veggies. I've been suffering with bloating and lower abdominal aches for a while but never in a million years did I connect it with my health kick. I also use local oestrogen for the "lady bits" so I'd convinced myself i was having a reaction to that.
After consulting Dr Google and reading about FODMAP (and discovering that everything I've been eating is on the no-no list), over the last few days I've cut out all fruit from my diet and the bloating has, if not disappeared, vastly reduced. I'm left with a bit of aching as if I've been punched or had a hard session at the gym. I suppose I'm currently in recovery mode.
I had bloods done last week (before the fruit exile began) supposedly to check my TSH/T4 and a whole host of other things. Thyroid function hasn't appeared on my app yet so would seem it hasn't been done, but my ferritin has dropped from a dismal 27 ug/L (10 - 291) down to a dire 19 ug/L (15 - 200)
So, couple of questions: could this be down to malabsorption and should my GP have picked up on this and be taking some action?
PS had coeliac test and FIT test last year and both were negative.
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You may have got a Candida build up in your stomach & possibly “lady bits” if you’ve been eating lots of fruits and underground starchy vegetables, if you’ve been eating lots of green leafy vegtables that can lower ferritin.
I find oregano oil capsules very helpful in settling my stomach after too much sugar. I buy mine from Amazon. It’s strong so don’t take for more than a week without a break. There are helpful probiotics aimed at reducing Candida too.
I've never heard of oregano oil capsules. I'll look into that, thank you. I'll order some probiotics too but am wary about taking them in case they cause more bloating.
Serum ferritin level is the biochemical test, which most reliably correlates with relative total body iron stores. In all people, a serum ferritin level of less than 30 micrograms/L confirms the diagnosis of iron deficiency.
Never supplement iron without doing full iron panel test for anaemia first and retest 3-4 times a year if self supplementing.
It’s possible to have low ferritin but high iron
Test early morning, only water to drink between waking and test. Avoid high iron rich dinner night before test
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.
Thank you for your incredible patience while you have been awaiting the outcome of our ferritin reference range review. We conducted this with Inuvi lab, which has now changed the reference ranges to the following:
Females 18 ≤ age < 40. 30 to 180
Females 40 ≤ age < 50. 30 to 207
Females 50 ≤ age < 60. 30 to 264l
Females Age ≥ 60. 30 to 332
Males 18 ≤ age < 40 30 to 442
Males Age ≥ 40 30 to 518
The lower limits of 30 are by the NICE threshold of <30 for iron deficiency. Our review of Medichecks data has determined the upper limits. This retrospective study used a large dataset of blood test results from 25,425 healthy participants aged 18 to 97 over seven years. This is the most extensive study on ferritin reference ranges, and we hope to achieve journal publication so that these ranges can be applied more widely.
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