Ok so I got my ferritin levels back at a 9. My iron is normalish. Will 18mg/day of iron through multivitamin in Ferrous fumarate form and eating a high iron diet boost this up quickly?
Ok so I got my ferritin levels back at a 9. My iron is normalish. Will 18mg/day of iron through multivitamin in Ferrous fumarate form and eating a high iron diet boost this up quickly?
"my iron is normalish" - you're prob looking at the circulating levels of iron, kinda like a checking account you might say. so you've got $1000 in your checking account and that's normalish
ferritin is a bit more like your savings account in this analogy - 9 would prob be like having about $300 in there; you're not completely 100% broke, but you aren't far away from it either
18mg/day is not going to be anywhere close to enough to "boost it up quickly", especially from a multivitamin that likely has calcium in it, which significantly reduces iron uptake. realistically it's unlikely to move the needle at all, especially if you're a menstruating female, but even if you're a guy it's not gonna accomplish much outside of neon-yellow piss
can give better advice if you offer some more personal details: age sex weight diet (do you eat meat? if yes, how much?)
18mg through a multivitamin that probably has calcium in it will not do anything. Get your ass some vitron C or liquid iron + vitamin C and take twice a day with on an empty stomach. A ferritin level of 9 is ANEMIC. Nowhere near normal. Normal(ish) would be like 30-50 for a regular person. As an endurance athlete you want 90+ to be considered normal.
18mg through a multivitamin that probably has calcium in it will not do anything. Get your ass some vitron C or liquid iron + vitamin C and take twice a day with on an empty stomach. A ferritin level of 9 is ANEMIC. Nowhere near normal. Normal(ish) would be like 30-50 for a regular person. As an endurance athlete you want 90+ to be considered normal.
No not anemic at all. Low ferritin doesn't mean anemic. But no 18mg won't do much. More like 90 every other day minimum, taken without calcium. Check with doc. Fe glycinate absorbs better than the SO4 . Check with doc.
18mg through a multivitamin that probably has calcium in it will not do anything. Get your ass some vitron C or liquid iron + vitamin C and take twice a day with on an empty stomach. A ferritin level of 9 is ANEMIC. Nowhere near normal. Normal(ish) would be like 30-50 for a regular person. As an endurance athlete you want 90+ to be considered normal.
No not anemic at all. Low ferritin doesn't mean anemic. But no 18mg won't do much. More like 90 every other day minimum, taken without calcium. Check with doc. Fe glycinate absorbs better than the SO4 . Check with doc.
A ferritin level of 9 is definitely anemic. It would take 3-4 months on 90mg every other day to get levels above 30.
Do not listen to these idiots. If you want to save your running start taking high potency iron.
Ok so I got my ferritin levels back at a 9. My iron is normalish. Will 18mg/day of iron through multivitamin in Ferrous fumarate form and eating a high iron diet boost this up quickly?
9 is extremely low. You should be at least 30 and probably up around 50 as a distance runner. I would start taking something like ProFerrin 2-3x per day with orange juice or something like Emergen-C and away from coffee/tea and dairy, both of which inhibit absorption. Also eat some red meat a couple times per week. I would also throttle down the running for a couple weeks. I’ve been here. I know how much a low ferritin level can inhibit performance. You may feel normal outside of running, but you’re not.
No not anemic at all. Low ferritin doesn't mean anemic. But no 18mg won't do much. More like 90 every other day minimum, taken without calcium. Check with doc. Fe glycinate absorbs better than the SO4 . Check with doc.
A ferritin level of 9 is definitely anemic. It would take 3-4 months on 90mg every other day to get levels above 30.
Do not listen to these idiots. If you want to save your running start taking high potency iron.
On the edge of iron Def anemia, but ferritin alone tells a sliver of the story. Not sure what HGB is. Different story if low. 90mg every other day maximizes absorption >> every day. This is well known and published. What is extremely variable is the response. It could raise it not all or a lot or a little. Get checked in 4 weeks or so, don't wait 3 mo to find out the dose was wrong/not effective. Oral dosing for low ferritin is a bit of a crap shoot. See your pcp. I've seen people take 60mg every day and drop.
when i had anemia i didn't do pills, i drank some sort of yolk shake, forget if it was 1-2 times a day. did not run at all. i think within 3 weeks or so i was back playing soccer but quit the rest of that XC season (i was doing both).
Ok so I got my ferritin levels back at a 9. My iron is normalish. Will 18mg/day of iron through multivitamin in Ferrous fumarate form and eating a high iron diet boost this up quickly?
Ferritin is non toxic storage of iron. It can also be massively high , with low iron in blood in the presence of bacterial infection. This is a way of starving the bacteria but at the same time pushes your red blood count lower
You've got a real problem. That ferritin count is reflective of how much material your body has to make new red blood cells, and 9 is real low. Here's a couple of actionable ideas that are in line with the gravity of this problem. At minimum, you need to get a bottle of liquid ferrous sulfate over the counter and consistently dose until that bottle is gone and your ferritin is at minimum back to 40. I would look to an injectable like iron dextran for a more direct attack. And I would add beef liver to my diet a couple times a week. Long term, I would make an anemia tonic out of equal parts black strap molasses, raw honey and apple cider vinegar. Let that sit in glass in a dark place for two weeks, and then take between one teaspoon to one tablespoon per day depending on your workload.