Iron supplement--should I notice a difference? Update and ?

I'm curious too! I've been on the same supplement (or maybe it's different in Canada, the one I'm taking is Feramax150) for about a month as well, and I haven't noticed any changes. I still have all the same symptoms too!

I was taking about 4x the amt you are taking and it took me a full month or 2. I can't believe they haven't checked your vitamin D yet? I think almost every woman in mn has low D.

I don't think you'll see results from taking iron for those symptoms without taking B12, folate, and Vitamin D. They all go hand in hand. If one is low, you can't absorb the others properly. A lot of your symptoms were what I had when I went in to have my B12, folate, and iron tested. Once I started on all of them, I started feeling a lot better.

I take mine separately. Multi's did nothing for me. I wish they would work because that would be a lot easier.

No one should be taking iron in isolation. And Vitamin D is not really a vitamin. It is a hormone. Again, not necessary to ingest this hormone. Take WHOLE food vitamin C (not ascorbic acid) and get out in the sun for at least 20 min a day without sunscreen to build your D levels. Doctors are horribly uneducated in matters of nutrition. Most only get one class, if that. Dr's love to push pharmaceuticals vs getting to the root cause of why your levels are low. Low vitamin D is ALWAYs low magnesium. ALWAYS. You need to check you MAG RBC and not serum. Most drs check serum only....a stupid waste of money. Ideally, you want a mag RBC of 6.5-7.0

Most of us living in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Singapore have been storing iron in our tissues and organs by ingesting: multivitamins, iron supplements, flour and cornmeal that has been mandated by the government to be fortified with inorganic iron filings since 1941, iron fortified baby formulas, iron fortified baby cereals, iron in drinking water, medications, vaccines, etc.. Iron is also passed down from mother to child in utero. Iron fortified flour and cornmeal is used in almost all baked goods, pastas, cereals, tortillas, bagels, muffins, cookies, cakes, rolls, breads, hamburger and hot dog buns, croutons, bread crumbs, etc., etc. Alcohol increases our stored iron; smoking also greatly increases our iron burden. Tobacco leaves contain a large amount of iron; that iron is inhaled directly into the lungs where the macrophages then carry some of it into the blood stream.

Excess iron ends up being stored in our liver, kidneys, pancreas, heart, brain, retinas, skin, etc. The iron stored in our tissues and organs does NOT always show up on iron blood tests, but it DOES show up on MRIs.

Most of us do NOT have "anemia;" as we are up to our EYEBALLS in iron; however, what we DO have is Iron DYSREGULATION, caused by excess iron and also caused by LOW ceruloplasmin. Do you eat cereal, pasta, bread or anything processed? If so, there is NO WAY you are anemic, despite what your blood tests reveal or what you dr may tell you. You have tons of iron, but it is in the wrong place...and rusting, by the way. Have any pain? Just wait, you will. Why would you ever consent to adding more iron that will likely just end up in your organs and tissue?

Ceruloplasmin is REQUIRED to regulate the iron and it is required to move the iron out of the tissues and into the plasma where it can then circulate and be transported by transferrin to the bone marrow where the iron is recycled and used in the new red blood cells. The ceruloplasmin ferroxidase enzyme is what oxidizes the Ferrous Iron and turns it into Ferric iron so that it can then be loaded onto Transferrin and Ferritin. You can learn more about Iron Dysregulation by reading or watching this: liveto110.com/162-rethinking-iron-supplementation-with-morley-robbins/

We need to know our serum ceruloplasmin level because ceruloplasmin regulates iron; otherwise, the excess iron will be stored in tissues and organs. The older we get, the more the unbound iron builds up in our tissues. Iron feeds all pathogens, including yeast, bacteria, fungi, viruses, parasites, cancer and also causes neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson's, ALS, Huntington's, M.S., Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, etc. Iron dysregulation is also the cause of heart attacks, arthritis, inflammation, oxidation, diabetes, high cholesterol, thyroid dysfunction, gout, viscous (thick) blood, matted, dense fibrin which distorts the shape of red blood cells, etc., etc.

Hemoglobin is the "engine" which contains the active red blood cells. Ferritin is the "trunk" and it is a storage protein for iron in the liver. The Ferritin proteins in the liver are mostly EMPTY because they have lost much of their iron content. Ferritin is released by damaged cells. High serum Ferritin is a sign of oxidation and inflammation; we do not want high ferritin levels. Morley recommends Ideal ferritin at 20-50 ng/dL.

One last thing...if you take hormone D and feel better initially, believe me it won't last. You will end up far sicker than you ever thought possible in a rather short time. I urge all of you to watch the video posted above. It can be life changing.