What are the symptoms of hemachromatosis?

Answer 1

From Wikipedia (Thus no gurantee of accuracy):

Haemochromatosis is notoriously protean, i.e., it presents with symptoms that are often initially attributed to other diseases. It is also true that some people with the disease never actually show signs or suffer symptoms (i.e. is clinically silent).[5]

Symptoms may include:[6][7][8]

* Malaise
* Liver cirrhosis (with an increased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, affecting up to a third of all homozygotes) - this is often preceded by a period of a painfully enlarged liver.
* Insulin resistance (often patients have already been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2)
* Erectile dysfunction and hypogonadism
* Decreased libido
* Congestive heart failure, arrhythmias or pericarditis
* Arthritis of the hands (MCP and PIP joints), knee and shoulder joints
* Deafness[9]
* Dyskinesias, including Parkinsonian symptoms[10][9][11]
* Dysfunction of certain endocrine organs:
o Pancreatic gland
o Adrenal gland (leading to adrenal insufficiency)
o Parathyroid gland (leading to hypocalcaemia)
o Pituitary gland
o Testes or ovary (leading to hypogonadism)
* A darkish colour to the skin (see pigmentation, hence its name Diabete bronze when it was first described by Armand Trousseau in 1865)
* An increased susceptibility to certain infectious diseases caused by:
o Vibrio vulnificus infections from eating seafood
o Listeria monocytogenes
o Yersinia enterocolica
o Salmonella enteritidis (serotype Typhymurium)
o Klebsiella pneumoniae
o Escherichia coli
o Rhizopus arrhizus
o Mucor species

Males are usually diagnosed after their forties, and women about a decade later, owing to regular iron loss by menstruation (which ceases in menopause), but cases have been found in young children as well.
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Unfortunately nutritional deficiencies/toxicities/etc are not my strong point. I'm sure someone hear will have more real world, or anecdotal knowledge to help you.

Answer 2

What do you mean symptoms?Hemachromatosis is when your blood is too thick.Your haematologist should have told you this when they found you had it,if it is too thick they will have to let some blood (remove it and pour down sink) and put you on asprin to keep it normal its similar to polycethemia vera .hope this helps...Liz.