I had a bit of nightmare getting my iron infusion this time
around, as I swapped GP surgeries and no-one there seemed to be able to
understand the term “Does not tolerate oral iron”! Anyway, after multiple phone
calls, appointments and repeat blood tests, then a final appointment to remind
them that I can’t tolerate oral iron (doh), I finally got my infusion this
week, a whole 3 months after they initially found it was low (doh again)!
So, anyway, I wanted to talk a little bit about
iron-deficiency anaemia in IBD; what it is and how it’s treated, as it’s a pretty
common extra-intestinal manifestation that many of us deal with.
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