I was diagnosed with Hemochromatosis at age 35 back in 2012. I remember having chronic fatigue and digestive issues, but not much other than that. I usually donate blood 3-4 times per year to keep my ferritin in check.

In July 2017, I injured my right arm. I wore a wrist brace for weeks and iced my forearm. I don't recall details, but I thought it was getting better. In mid-August, I suddenly lost all strength in my right, leaving me in a wrist brace and sling during my first week of teaching. By the end of the week, I couldn't use both of my arms. It was soooo strange.

I was in so much paid, that I went to a orthopedics doctor and he told me I had tenis elbow and tendonitis and gave me a big shot and I was better within a couple hours. But the pain comes and goes, depending on the day, and has been going on for 6 months now. It seemed to be random pains in the elbow, forearm, and shoulder, more in the muscle, I thought. But now, I'm getting pains in my knees -- painful to go up and down stairs, always crack loudly or sound like sandpaper, and sometimes hurt even to walk. And now my arm pains seem to be more in the wrist, elbow and shoulder joints, rather than in the muscles.

My Ferritin was 31.0 in November 2017 and 50.3 in March 2018, which both are in the normal range and my doctor said she likes to keep me under 100. But in this last blood test, almost all the other iron tests were out of range. Is this unusual? Could all my aches be related to HH even though my Ferritin is normal?

Iron                                 162 Norm  (37-170)
TIBC                                211 Low   (250-450)
% Iron Saturated               77  High   (15-50)
Unsaturated Iron Binnding  49 Low  (150-375)
Transferrin                      151 Low (250-380)

Ferritin                           50.3   Normal   (6-159)