Iron Depletion in Blood related to COVID?

Yes. My husband has never had any history of anemia or low iron. He received the Pfizer vaccine in March. He began feeling more tired over the next two months. He saw his physician and she suspected some type of internal bleeding based on the blood test, He had an upper and lower endoscopy. No internal bleeding was found. They are going to try the camera endoscopy next week. We don't think this is going to reveal anything. His iron, ferritin and red blood cell count is extremely low. The only change in has been receiving the vaccine.

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No. Because the doctors will not admit yet that it resulted from the vaccine. They want to run more tests, upper and lower GI, etc.

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I have been having the same problem. I went to the doctor after being very tired and easily out of breath. My CBC counts had all plummeted as well as my iron and iron saturation. I started pumping myself with anything I could with iron in it. Next blood test my CBC counts had come back up, but my iron and saturation levels were still low. I still am taking anything I can to up my iron. While I am not as tired as I was, I still find I have no get up and go, and still need one nap each day, which is not me. I plan on requesting another iron and saturation test soon, but am afraid this is permanent.
I received my two Pfizer shots in March and April.

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I think someone representing this message board should inform them as a public service. Just got my third shot 2weeks ago and I get blood work next week

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After reading all of your reports and comments here, I decided to look at VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D8) and search for low hemoglobin or low ferritin reports. There were 420,000 adverse events reported out of 330,000,000 Covid vaccine doses administered. Of those 778 reported low hemoglobin or ferritin, 324 of those from the Pfizer vaccine. We cannot tell from this simple search exactly when, in relation to injection, these events were reported. Now is there a cause/effect proven by reporting. To make a comparison, I also looked at reduced ferritin/hemoglobin in VAERS for the Shingrix and Quadravalent flu vaccines (with far fewer doses delivered than Covid) and found 23 for each, out of 30-40 thousand VAERS reports.

I understand that this is undoubtedly underreported, especially since the discovery is coming some time after the vaccine. So, I would say that there appears to be some indication that some people may experience lower hemoglobin at a point after vaccination. In addition, it is known that some people show lower hemoglobin after having the Covid virus (even after a mild case sometimes.)

Perhaps, at some point we will come to a better understanding of all the interactions between Covid infections, the vaccine, and our bodies.

Has anyone experienced either
1) dangerously low hemoglobin of ferritin after vaccination, or
2) numbers that are not recovering?
Sue

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My daughters iron never went back up either with iron supplements. The only thing it went up with is a blood transfusion. She will start iron infusions next week. I am hoping it goes up further. The lowest her hemoglobin got was 5.8 which is not good. Her folate levels were the lowest the hematologist has ever seen. She has O- blood type. I'd be interested to know if there is anything that is common in those on this commentary.

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Hi, all my numbers plummeted, iron, iron saturation and all my CBC’s. I got the CBC’s to come up, but am struggling with the iron. After the next blood test, I will request an iron infusion. I am so tired..

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