A cautiously positive health update. It turns out you can be pretty severely anemic even if you have high hemoglobin. The doctor really did not want to give me a ferritin blood test, but I insisted (because my sister told me to) and lo and behold, my ferritin was under the threshold. There's still the question of why it's so low, when I should be getting plenty of iron from food. I don't know if the thyroid issues were a red herring or if they still somehow have something to do with the anemia. But I started taking iron supplements and I should start slowly getting better. It can take months to fill up the iron storage, but I assume I'll start feeling a little better sooner than that.
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A cautiously positive health update. It turns out you can be pretty severely anemic even if you have high hemoglobin. The doctor really did not want to give me a ferritin blood test, but I insisted (because my sister told me to) and lo and behold, my ferritin was under the threshold. There's still the question of why it's so low, when I should be getting plenty of iron from food. I don't know if the thyroid issues were a red herring or if they still somehow have something to do with the anemia. But I started taking iron supplements and I should start slowly getting better. It can take months to fill up the iron storage, but I assume I'll start feeling a little better sooner than that.
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