Do you have a heavy period?? Believe it or not, a heavy period is defined by having to change your tampon during the night!!! Who are they kidding??

I ended up severely anemic due to heavy periods caused by uterine fibroid but am doing better on an iron supplement. I also use enzymes to dissolve the fibroids and they seem to be working as I'm having a relatively light period for once in my life.

I go see my gyno Dec. 19th to have a ultrasound to look for fibroids. But I've had female problems for years like when cysts burst on my ovaries...I'm not sure how FIBRO related it is...;)

thanks guy for your thoughts i guess im goin to keep on searching until i find out what the problem is my blood will be drawn on the 22nd to see if there are any changes i stopped using guai and dgl licorice root to see if maybe one of thos is causing the low blood ill keep you posted hugs charlene

I just went through something similar. My hemoglobin went down to 9.2 over the course of a few months. I had the scope and the colonoscopy and they suspected celiac. My antibodies test came back negative so they suspected it was a benign polyp that was removed during the procedure. A couple of weeks after it's removal and a course of iron supplements (ferrous sulfate) my hemoglobin has been stable at the 11.2/11.4 level since September.

Since I'm still not in the 12-14 normal range, I'm still on the iron supplements.

My rheumy thought it was the heavy ibuprofen use that was making the polyp slowly bleed. He said if it wasn't that, then I'm just one of those people who are anemic without explaination, like a lot of women are since they have a monthly period.

Aside from extreme fatigue, I had no other symptoms. I have to say that with the iron supps and the polyp removal, my fatigue has improved a great deal.

kabe how is the rest of your blood work? my over all iron is 22 and feritin level is 4 along with other things that are down hugs charlene

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Charlene:

I don't know what your ferritin lab values are, but mine came back at 3.1 in a range of 5 to 306. Obviously I wasn't even on the charts I was sooooo anemic. I don't remember what the other values were.

The rest of my blood work is fine. My hemoglobin is/was the only thing off.

when this started in aug my ferritin was 1 now it is a 4 but my blood is still 8.5 so i dont know i guess the iron and folic acid is going to the bone marrow my over all iron is 22 last year it was in the 60s hugs charlene