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Same exact thing happened to my 58 year old husband. He was pale and very tired. Passed out at work and finally went to his doctor who did blood work. His hgb was down to 4.6 and he was hospitalized and received 4 units of blood and iron infusion. He was scoped up & down and had a small bowel follow through with nothing showing any source of bleed. A friend told me they heard about someone who had this happen after a Covid vaccine and suggested I look on line. I feel this is too similar to be a coincidence. He never had issues with his blood work prior to this event. He now is on iron supplement and has a complete blood count every 3 months since he stabilized.
I have been seeing a hematologist after receiving blood work that was way off kilter in the red blood cell area. I have never been anemic, in fact, I am a carrier of the gene for hemochromatosis, which is high iron. I had the vaccine, had COVID, and had the booster in 2021. I went for a physical in January of 2022 with an iron count that went from 14.6 to 11.4 and a ferritin that dropped from 274 to 4. Everyone of my red blood cells were awry. Platelets almost 600 up from 230. I had an endoscopy, swallowed the pill cam, a colonoscopy, saw a gynecologist, a pulmonologist, had a CT scan with contrast and there is nothing to be found. I took iron for six months and my hemoglobin went up but my ferritin never got past 22. I went for a physical a few weeks ago and my ferritin fell again as did my hemoglobin. Iron saturation was 7 and I’m back on Integra. If there is a COVID study out there that has to do with anemia and COVID, please sign me up. I also had restless leg syndrome, and labored breathing but I never really was sick when I did have COVID . I never even coughed.
It has been an expensive and mentally exhausting year and it’s still going on.
My wife who is 74 has no history of anemia and sees the doctor quarterly with semi annual blood tests due to type II diabetes. She had 3 Pfizer COVID vaccine inoculations. She suddenly was very tired and was severely anemic and the doctor suspected internal bleeding. She had upper and lower endoscopy and the intestinal camera. All were negative. She is now no longer anemic after taking significant iron supplements
. Her 70 year old female friend had the same experience as well as another female friend.
Anemia is detected by a blood test and you may have it but not know it until you have the specific blood test. I believe anemia after the vaccines is far more common but the full extent is not known due to the need for a blood test to confirm.
This is exactly like my dad now, and he is always cold. I have noticed he looks grey \ white in the face. He also had to give a stool sample. I've told him to stop getting those vaccines this is his 5th one he got