I'm always anemic.I have Ulcerative colitis & so I bleed, but not all the time, so I don't understand why I get anemic even when my colitis isn't too bad. (Though my period is always early & heavy). I can't take ferrous sulphate because it makes me constipated exacerbating my colitis. I eat a balanced diet, including apricots, sprouts, spinach,& liver but my body doesn’t absorb the iron. I just had another course of Iron infusions, but I still feel anemic & I’m not due for a blood test until March 6 by which time I shall be even worse, then I’ll have to wait another 2weeks while the hospital sort out the paperwork etc & set up the appointments. They're so useless, I’m sure the treatments didn’t have any effect this time because they mucked up with my appointments-I had one infusion 15 December, the next was a month later, followed by 1 a week for 3 weeks thats 5. On previous occasions I've had 6 infusions-1 a week. How can I avoid this shambles &stop myself getting such low iron levels
2007-02-18
22:42:14
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Honey W
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