Iron deficiency?

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  • BamBam125
    BamBam125 Posts: 229 Member
    You can also cook with cast iron (not enameled, just seasoned). The iron will leak into your food as you cook. If you cook acidic foods you'll need to re season the pan more often though. I loved my cast iron. When we redo the kitchen in our new house, I want to ditch the glass top stove and add gas so that I can use it again. It's cheap too. You can get a decent cast iron skillet at Walmart even.
  • Mustang_Susie
    Mustang_Susie Posts: 7,045 Member
    I would go to your doctor and request blood work done. Ask them for an anemia workup rather than just simply a hemoglobin or CBC.. Often times a primary care doctor will order solely this and often times anemia can be missed or treatment ends up being inappropriate. You can be a full blown anemic with symptoms and have a borderline low or even normal hemoglobin. Let them check your ferritin level (iron stores) serum iron concentration, total iron-binding capacity, serum vitamin B-12 and folate. In mine they also checked heavy metals (lead being one of them) and thyroid levels, as hypothyrodism can go hand-in-hand with iron deficiency anemia. I've been battling anemia for years now so I wish you all the best of luck.

    Thank you for posting this. I had not thought about doing an iron panel. Good idea :)
  • myfitnesslife75
    myfitnesslife75 Posts: 163 Member
    You can also cook with cast iron (not enameled, just seasoned). The iron will leak into your food as you cook. If you cook acidic foods you'll need to re season the pan more often though. I loved my cast iron. When we redo the kitchen in our new house, I want to ditch the glass top stove and add gas so that I can use it again. It's cheap too. You can get a decent cast iron skillet at Walmart even.

    Oooh, I love my cast iron, too! I just recently bought a cast iron roasting pot. I also have 4 cast iron pans in different sizes and have a new gas stove. Great stuff!
  • D_barre_addict
    D_barre_addict Posts: 5
    I've had similar symptoms, tried upping iron just through diet, but to be honest this did not have the same effect as when I started taking liquid iron.
    However, everyone is different, I agree with other about importance of getting a diagnosis

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