Anyone Here Experienced with Anemia/iron Issues?

When I was 18 I was diagnosed with endometriosis. I had my blood tested and they said my platelet count was like a cancer patients. It was very low. I was put on iron supplements and received Lupron shots for 6 months to stop my monthly so I wouldn't bleed. It was so bad I blacked out at times. I even wreckeced my car. It was scary! This is what I experienced...I couldn't see, everything would go black and all I could hear was background noise. That happened on and off for 4 years until I finally found a doctor to take me seriously.
Slow FE is a great iron supplement and you don't get constipated.

Take care, enjoy the weekend!

I've never had my binding capacity tested but I had something like 13% iron on my last test... Not too severe. My MIL had severe anemia early in her life and we talked about once. It's like being a zombie! feel so low of energy and thin, pale... she had always been skinnier when she was younger but she said when she had such low anemia she was really sickly looking.

I hope it's nothing too serious :) All I can suggest is don't take iron pills too often! My father took some every day for a while without any previous knowledge. Got iron poisoning. He was so sick!

I had something that sounded very similar (I remember my binding capacity was too high too) but I never did figure it all out. My numbers are buried in a file somewhere, so I'd be no help. I'll be interested to see the replies.

I was told I had to quit giving blood (forever). I vaguely recall taking a supplement and the problem resovling in a short time, nothing too terrible...