What is Anemia
Anemia (or anaemia), which literally means "without blood," is a deficiency of red blood cells and/or hemoglobin. This results in a reduced ability of blood to transfer oxygen to t...
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lack of iron absorption
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My mom is unable to absorb iron so she has gotten iron infusions, and even blood (2 pints). She's been battling this for years and it's only getting worse. She's being treated by a hemotologist oncologist and he can't even help. He said it is not leukemia which is good news and when she received the blood her levels were normal. Her energy lasted 5 weeks but has crashed again. She just went back and received a double dose of iron infusion but she is not feeling at all better. I don't know what or where to take her next.I think her diagnosis is that she is losing blood from the small intestante but microscopically. Everything else is negative. Colonoscopy, endoscopy etc. Where do we go from here.
Posted on 04/27/09, 11:04 pm |
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If you get any answers to this question I would love to hear. I am currently going through this same sort of thing and when I saw the specialist last, was told I would probably need to have iron infusions for the rest of my life???
I would love to know the cause, and no I am not vegetarian??? 
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Why for the rest of your life??? I've just been diagnosed, but denied infusion coverage by insurance?
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my iron levels can be normal one day and plummet the next. The specialist say being on a constant dose is not going to help me infact it could be harmful. Once the six weeks has past since the last iron infusion I need to have constant follow up on my levels, and the moment they plummet, I need to have an infusion. I would just really like to know what is causing it, because even the specialist say, something must be. The specialist said he was 100% sure he was going to be sitting there telling me I had cancer, but he never (thankgoodness) found any.
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