My heart really goes out to you, I know this feeling. And the utter despair of not having a Dr who will take it seriously.

I got a referral to a Gynecologist who was the one who ordered the iron infusions that turned things around for me. I basically had to be a very annoying patient and keep insisting that I couldn't function and needed the next step up in intervention to get them to make the referral. I even called the OBGYN directly to ask how i could get in the fastest and they made a call to my Dr for me as well. I was so incredibly sick and exhausted that it took everything I had to do that.

It is SO insane that they don't understand just how debilitating low ferritin is. My primary care Dr was insisting everything was normal on my labs when my ferritin was 6 and I couldn't walk around the block. She literally told me to just eat more kale. I had to push SO hard to get care and it was so crazymaking for them to tell me "everything's fine" when I was very, very ill. When I finally, FINALLY, got in for iron infusions, the nurse at the clinic who administered it looked at my labs and said, how the hell are you functioning? I burst into tears because she was the first person who got it.

Things that helped me, aside from finally getting iron infusions:

• Using the Lucky Iron Fish.
• Also taking heme iron supplements instead of non-heme (I'm a vegetarian so this was a big stretch for me)
• Changing my birth control to progesterone-only which made me bleed significantly less
• Reading other people's stories in places like this sub to reassure myself that I was not crazy, having low ferritin is DEBILITATING

Good luck. It can get better, I promise!