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Erythrocytosis: Any suggestions for low ferritin due to phlebotomies?
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Jun 7, 2023 | Replies (13)Comment receiving replies
After covid vaccine, my hemoglobin would not come back up despite oral iron and 5 iron infusions. I had been off and on oral iron for about 10 years and it always worked before vaccine. I have now been diagnosed with Waldenstrom’s. Did vaccine cause Hemoglobin to not come back up?
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Sorry to hear of your health diagnoses. Have you joined this thread? "Iron Depletion in Blood related to COVID?" - might have some help to you.
Also, I have seen somewhere in the thread “Low Platelets: Diagnosis to be confirmed” a medical provider talking about a prescription “Rituxan” that keeps b cells from attacking your body. Maybe something to run by your doctor for a potential treatment option?
Hope you get some answers soon and feel better!
Side note - supplemental oral iron worked for me prior to COVID when my iron was lower (not clinically low) and it no longer seems to work. IV iron did work for me after 5 rounds but only time will tell if it stays up. RDW values are still abnormal though (and even worse after IV iron) and awaiting follow up on why that is.