I know we've talked about this openly on here from time-to-time. I'd like to believe you're in a different category than the general population given the nature of your unfortunate event.
American College of Cardiology seems to believe, replenishing Fe status is beneficial for individuals such as yourself with reduced ejection fraction-HF.
Supriya Shore, MD
www.acc.org
There is an increasing awareness of the prevalence of iron deficiency (ID) in patients with heart failure (HF) and its contributory role in the morbidity and mortality of HF. It is important to note that many HF patients have ID without being anaemic, ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Or so the guys dressed up in white-coats with a bunch of abbreviations after their names can't quite come to agreements to favor one-way or the other.
I know there's different schools of thought on the potentials or lack thereof in the presence of lackluster Fe status.
In an otherwise healthy individual, myself being one of them that beat the bejesus out of my Fe status from over phlebotomizing. I struggled gasping walking up a flight of stairs or anything strenuous took a toll on me. My cognitive function for memory recall sucked in school and day to day life. My heart rate was constantly hovering around 90-100
BPM at rest. Amongst several other feeling like doo-doo thingys. This was all under the guidance years ago by one of my old treating clinicians for T replacement to phlebotomize routinely once my HH hit 18/54. This was 8-9 years ago. That lasted a better part of a year. He's nothing but a faded memory today. Not we'll versed. However.
I might donate once per year now, primarily when I get constant phone calls from the local blood bank. Otherwise, I don't hyperfixate on my HH levels. At the same time, they hover around 17/18+/- 52/54%. I don't blink an eye at it. I'll check my chem panel, punch in my osmolality. Sure enough, I wasn't sufficiently hydrated at that time of my labs. Others flip out thinking their going to stroke out our flop over from a MI. All-in-all that stressing out over a meaningless value that fluctuates widely throughout the day isn't good for our overall health