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Those of you who have ever had low ferritin, can you describe your symptoms?

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I've read all the symptoms on the internet but want to hear it from you guys with experience.
 
Low ferritin is usually linked to iron def. anemia 99% of the time. Fatigue short of breath craving to chew ice.. Just get a cbc, ferritin, iron, tibc done by pcp.. Although there are some auto-immune disordera that cause hemolysis which can accompany low ferritin...
 
i have or had low ferritin levels but i actually felt good. lots of energy and felt good mentally as well. still not sure what the cause it yet


was not fasted when took blood test

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Low ferritin is usually linked to iron def. anemia 99% of the time. Fatigue short of breath craving to chew ice.. Just get a cbc, ferritin, iron, tibc done by pcp.. Although there are some auto-immune disordera that cause hemolysis which can accompany low ferritin...

His is from over phlebotomizing. He's not anemic, his HH and erythrocytes are normal.
 
yes I had a colonoscopy and also had an endoscopy. nothing was found to cause this.


Well that's good. Have you been screened for any type of acquired hemolytic anemias?
 
Iron panel?

Low ferritin is usually linked to iron def. anemia 99% of the time. Fatigue short of breath craving to chew ice.. Just get a cbc, ferritin, iron, tibc done by pcp.. Although there are some auto-immune disordera that cause hemolysis which can accompany low ferritin...

I want YOUR symptoms when you had it. I understand entirely how and why it happens.
 
no, but i will mention that to my doc next time i see him.

You weren't donating/phlebotomizing blood? Just got those low numbers some other way?
 
no, but i will mention that to my doc next time i see him.

With you being on androgenic compounds this *may* be a bit tricky to tease out *if* there is some type of hemolysis going on. It's apparent there's erythropoietic stimuli going on looking at your erythrocytes (red blood cells).

Nonetheless, I'd mention it next time you see your primary.
 
I want YOUR symptoms when you had it. I understand entirely how and why it happens.

Before I said anything I was curious to see what your labs looked like. Maybe confused but I thought you donated blood often... I think my shortness of breath may be due to iron problems.

My most recent labs are skewed bc I was supplementing iron the day before but even despite that my Iron Saturation was the lowest value in the normal range.
 
My ferriting was almost non existent a year go.. <5 due to blood donations.


COMPONENT YOUR VALUE STANDARD RANGE
Ferritin <5 ng/mL 22 - 365 ng/mL
General information
Collected:
03/06/2018 10:21 AM



10 months later at 13..


COMPONENT YOUR VALUE STANDARD RANGE
Ferritin 13 ng/mL 22 - 365 ng/mL
General information
Collected:
01/16/2019 4:40 PM

As of 3 weeks ago ferritin is up to 55.


I had no symptoms at all.
My iron, RBC, HGB and HCT was all in normal range.
 
I've read all the symptoms on the internet but want to hear it from you guys with experience.

Maybe fatigue but for sure unilateral uncontrollable twitches of my eyelids.

Supplementing ferritin will just worsen your liver values.
My advice: try regular vitamin B12 injections so that your ferritin uptake via food will increase to a more healthy level.
 
well . . .

My wife had very very low iron. Was always that way.
Could never donate blood it was so low. (Not unusual
for a female.) Had to believe she was (is) so successful
in endurance activities. Shows me what a strong will
she has.

Although she rarely complained, her symptoms were
mostly fatigue. Her blood tests as a function of HRT
showed consistently very low iron. Supplements of
all sorts were of zero value. Go figure.

She was ‘scoped’ up one end and down the other.
Could not find any internal bleeding. She finally
saw a hematologist / oncologist who after further
testing could not find a cause. He gave her an
iron infusion and while the numbers went up into
the normal range (she felt the difference, felt
fantastic), they sank monthly as we saw with her
blood tests. And so did her energy level.

She had another infusion, a different ‘solution’ and
this one seems to have stuck. Have no explanation.
She has not had a blood test in a while, she feels
great so when she does go in for another blood test,
it will be interesting to see what the numbers are.
 
Before I said anything I was curious to see what your labs looked like. Maybe confused but I thought you donated blood often... I think my shortness of breath may be due to iron problems.

My most recent labs are skewed bc I was supplementing iron the day before but even despite that my Iron Saturation was the lowest value in the normal range.

Most recent:
ferritin 23
hematocrit 52.4
hemoblogin 17.2

The rest of the cbc panel was within normal ranges.

But I get these shit dizzy/fatigue symptoms that I don't know are from iron or something else, so I wanted to make this thread to find any clues.

Maybe fatigue but for sure unilateral uncontrollable twitches of my eyelids.

Supplementing ferritin will just worsen your liver values.
My advice: try regular vitamin B12 injections so that your ferritin uptake via food will increase to a more healthy level.

I don't agree at all. I supplement ferrous sulphate all the time and it doesn't worsen my liver values. For me, ferrous sulphate is the most reliable way to increase ferritin. I doubt B12 raises it to the same degree.
 
Most recent:
ferritin 23
hematocrit 52.4
hemoblogin 17.2

The rest of the cbc panel was within normal ranges.

But I get these shit dizzy/fatigue symptoms that I don't know are from iron or something else, so I wanted to make this thread to find any clues.



I don't agree at all. I supplement ferrous sulphate all the time and it doesn't worsen my liver values. For me, ferrous sulphate is the most reliable way to increase ferritin. I doubt B12 raises it to the same degree.

I was getting very dizzy and fatigued when my ferritin was low from giving blood too often.There were times when I almost fell down from the dizziness
 

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