My iron and B12 turned out to be low

Started 3 March 2025 · 18 replies · 185 hearts · read 1.4k times

BrunoMilan, IT · 3 March 2025

1.4 years ago

Something I have been sitting with: My iron and B12 turned out to be low Not looking for advice so much as other people's experience.

Before anyone says it: yes, I have an appointment booked. I would still like to hear from people who have had this.

I am aware some of this may be nothing. I would still like to know whether other people have had it, because I have spent a fortnight assuming I am the only one.

The thing that has surprised me most is how much of this is about other people rather than about me.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

TorrinAberdeen, UK

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

BassCoventry, UK

Building on what the opening post wrote rather than answering the original question.

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

OrrinGlasgow, UK

the reply above said something I want to sit with for a second.

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

5me too 4

KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

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KezWigan, UK

Have you got anyone who can be with you when you do it? It made an enormous difference to me and I felt silly asking.

NettieBarrow, UK

The thing that changed it for me was going slower, agreed with my prescriber. I am not suggesting you do that. I am saying the conversation exists.

AshSunderland, UK

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

NilsUppsala, SE

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

SunnivaBodø, NO

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

10me too 5

NoahHull, UK

#10

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

TobySwindon, UK

#11

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.

10me too 5

HuwWrexham, UK

#12

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

RuthieLeicester, UK

#13

Different experience here, for balance. Mine did not improve and in the end I stopped, and that was the right call for me. Both outcomes exist.

RunaAarhus, DK

#14

the reply above — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

The phrase that unlocked my appointment was asking what specifically she wanted me to watch for. It moved us from reassurance to a plan in about thirty seconds.

HollisBath, UK

#15

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

TychoLeiden, NL

#16

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

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KikiFacilitatorGlasgow, UK

#17

Reading the reply above, I recognised more of that than I expected to.

Before anyone offers a remedy: what has been described here is on the list of things that need a clinician today rather than a thread. I am going to be firm about that, kindly.

SamPortland, OR

#18

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.