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Iron Depletion in Blood related to COVID?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Nov 7, 2024 | Replies (1078)Comment receiving replies
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.
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I experienced the same thing. Family and life-long personal history of high iron (Saturation hit 75-78, Hemoglobin 16), got two Pfizers in July 2021 and August 2021, and my hemoglobin went down to 11.5 within 2 months. Ferritin dropped to "undetectable" and then "stabilized" at 3. Iron is currently at 4, saturation at 5. Platelets at the upper limit (what does this mean?). I don't want to take iron supplements due to my high iron history and the unknown (to me) cause for this sudden drop. Never got Covid, tested a dozen times with 3 different types of tests. I also have the laboured breathing, but no cough! I have seen several types of specialists and not one doctor has asked me about Covid, the virus nor the vaccine.
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pamarena1960 your story sounds very similar to mine, no obvious cause for the anemia, never had issues with this before, but I gave yet to see an improvement in my bloodwork. Took a polydextrose iron supplement for 6 months last year and did not see any improvement at all. My hemoglobin and ferritin have dropped significantly recently and I’m now taking a heme iron supplement. Seeing a hematologist soon, this has been going on for at least a year.