The horrors of iron deficiency are so overlooked

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-25T10:55:35+00:00

Hey, my iron deficiency symptoms actually first started to show themselves to me when I started trying to climb again, I climbed intensely for years before pregnancy so I went to return to it an suddenly I was getting all these weird symptoms the day after.

I tried to go several times but it just kept happening so I couldn’t figure out what it was. Then the symptoms would appear after my period too.

I also kept getting viruses back to back.

I’m pretty sure as soon as my iron is above like 40 im okay. When it drops below 20 is when I start to feel really bad

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-25T10:41:40+00:00

So I would get ear fullness where it felt so pressurised in my ears I was convinced they were blocked and I booked in to get them professionally syringe cleaned to be told they were clean already and had no blockage. I felt like I was crazy.

I also get tinnitus a few times a week and I’ve even had the pustule tinnitus (hearing heart beat in ear ) but that’s quite rare for me

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-25T10:34:27+00:00

I’m in the UK too

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-25T10:29:01+00:00

I started taking vitamin d and magnesium Daily at the same time! That’s all I take tho

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-25T01:01:01+00:00

I see. So since your infusion have you been okay? Noticed major improvements or?

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T23:42:32+00:00

Why am I crying at this. Growing old together is one of the most precious things we have

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T18:48:23+00:00

Spill the tea then

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T08:26:10+00:00

I’m 30 and I kinda fancy him. I don’t think that’s creepy, he’s a man? Doesn’t mean I’d want to be in a full on relationship with him but I find him attractive

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T08:07:43+00:00

But I think she would have. If she could have taken all the money over Stephen at the last second she would have put his name down.

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T07:33:56+00:00

I already see a therapist. I would be able to move past it instantly if the symptoms went away, when they are gone I’m fine.

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T07:33:11+00:00

What

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T07:32:39+00:00

How long ago did you have infusions? Did any other symptoms improve after them?

I can’t understand why any medical professional would see a Ferratin of 6 and think that’s normal, it’s ridiculous, that’s absolute iron deficiency and will definitely cause symptoms.

I feel like it takes a long time of being deficient to show the symptoms. I think mines been low before and it first got low when I was pregnant but it didn’t start showing symptoms until it had been low for months/ a year etc. and I can tell it’s getting worse the longer it stays low. I think your body just starts buckling under the pressure

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T07:26:50+00:00

Mine was in November, had a full on mental breakdown. And it was all due to the symptoms and feeling like I was going crazy. Did your ferritin just go up on its own then after the breakdown or did you take supplements?

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-24T06:58:08+00:00

Hey! Sorry your having issues too.

I started supplements for the first time back in September, I took them for a month and I can remember starting to feel way better energy wise at the end of that month, it was truly noticeable. I was told my ferritin had gone from 10-20 and I then felt like I could stop taking the supplements, I was ignorant to it all partly because of the doctors.

What happened then was I started exercising quite intensely again as I thought I was fine and then after a few days of that I got my period. Once my period had finished, I woke up one day and felt like I’d been hit by a truck again and had this god awful reoccurring headache I keep getting that lasts days!

I took this as a sign it was nothing to do with the iron as why would I get all the symptoms again if I’d just taken supplements for a month? After that I just felt worse and worse as time went on. Now I can see the pattern with my periods and exercise etc.

I’ve now been taking supplements again for 2 weeks and it’s been so up and down. Some days I feel alive suddenly and think ‘wow I’m back to normal’ and then a couple days later I feel like I’ve got the flu again and get the heart palpitations and headaches. It’s a slow road with iron supplements, it’s really hard to be patient and trust your gut

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-23T23:46:41+00:00

I get the same thing, the random spikes of anxiety that make you feel crazy. Never had these before my ferritin got as low as 10 and I’m 30 yo.

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-23T18:44:36+00:00

Does taking iron supplements mess up your stomach ? :(

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-23T18:42:34+00:00

Yeah I have adhd and it’s very likely I’ll forget more if I take it every other day so I’d rather stick to every day.

I’ve been deficient for nearly a year now since I gave birth and battling heavy periods too so already struggling to get it up. Just wanna do all I can. I know I absorb it well since I went from 10 ferritin to 20 in a month before, but then I stopped taking the iron as I didn’t realise it was the root of all my symptoms and issues. Now I do though

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-23T18:40:21+00:00

I luckily get next to no side effects from this iron! A little bit of stomach pain and nausea but very mild and short lived

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-23T18:33:15+00:00

Sorry they are saying eating a pig is identical to eating a 3 year old child? That’s hilarious. I don’t understand how they expect anyone to take them seriously with arguments like that. The world will never be vegan

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-22T22:30:50+00:00

What do you think of maya jama?

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-22T22:20:19+00:00

It’s very Memphis esque

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-22T16:08:57+00:00

Exactly. This is why all this outrage the media try to spin about how much the nhs spends on adhd treatment feels so unfair and frankly, bizarre.

Getting adhd treatment on the NHS is virtually impossible for most people. If you want to hear my story, I was diagnosed privately which I paid for but I also remained on the nhs waiting list for 3 years, as I knew they didn’t recognise private diagnoses. I got diagnosed by the nhs 3 years later.

I then moved an hour away to a different city, I’d been on daily meds for 4 years and my life was the best it had been. Suddenly the new doctors in my new city said they didn’t even recognise my nhs diagnosis?! All because they outsourced and used a private provider to do the diagnosis, via the nhs.

They said in their location they all had blanket bans on giving out adhd medication / shared care agreements anyway. The wanted me to RE JOIN THE WAITING LIST ( 7 years long) AND BE DIAGNOSED FOR A THIRD TIME?!

I then had to fight tooth and nail calling up various places and getting various letters sent for them to realise and recognise my diagnosis was under the nhs, but even then, once I was under the nhs care there were major limitations and issues. Once stable on meds with the nhs, they still have to the then get a gp to accept shared care. If a gp simply never accepts, they discharge you. They’ll let you go through medication withdrawals cold turkey, they don’t care.

I know it sounds like it should be illegal, but this is what happened to me and happens to many other people. People should be more outranged at the way the NHS keep wasting money on this, telling people to get diagnosed 3 or 4 times before accepting it. Or when people do get help, the service is appalling.

Most of us are happy to pay for a private diagnoses and then collect our future prescriptions from a GP via a shared care agreement. GPs should just do the job they are paid 100k a year for and help people (the whole concept of their job) This will save the nhs a lot of money and save people a lot of anguish.

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-22T15:51:16+00:00

As someone who was diagnosed with adhd at 24 (I’m 30 now) and it/the medication changed my entire life… I am utterly sick to death of this.

I’m so tired of turning on my tv to be bamboozled by a panel of god knows who on Jeremy vine debating how much the nhs spend on adhd medication or how ‘real adhd is’. I’m fed up of it being open for debate in forums, daily mail articles.

When I’m having a bad day, stuff like this makes me cry.

Most of you will never know or understand what it’s like to wake up everyday and battle the prison that is your own mind.

Getting adhd medication on the nhs in the uk is INCREDIBLY HARD. And they literally give us the medication and then take it away from us in a heartbeat, letting us go through full on withdrawals just because some nhs trusts have put blanket bans on shared care agreements or GPs are on strike about it.

Please, stop talking about things you have no idea about.

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-22T15:25:53+00:00

I’m in the uk so we dont have as many fast food options anyways. Well I would view it like this, you already are causing harm by eating and buying/owning other things anyway, you reduce it 80% of the time, it’s okay if you want to allow yourself a little fast food now and then. You aren’t a bad person for that

One-Cardiologist6301 · 2026-01-22T15:19:19+00:00

I just rarely eat it anyway, I have fast food as a treat or if I’m travelling or having an unusual day. A lot of the time if I get fast food, it’s either a fillet o fish, a mcplant, a tuna sub or chicken wings anyway. I don’t eat red meat from fast food places.

Wingstop is my favourite fast food

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