Improving Haemoglobin

I wish my blood was at 9.8, consider yourself lucky. And it's going up by .6 in only 1 week? Wow, I'd be dancing on my roof if I were you. I can only dream of the day I can start making more blood than losing it...

I few weeks ago mine was 8.4.

Thanks. You must have been tired! I lose about a point in any given week, unless I have black stool, then it's a point a day.

My GI has told me that if I'm on the max dose of oral iron supplements (for me that was 60mg, 2-3 times/day) and I'm absorbing them well, I can expect to have an increase of about a point a week in my hemoglobin levels, as long as I'm not losing any more blood. So it will take quite a while for it to get back to where it was, and probably at least 3 weeks or so before it's even in normal range, which starts at 12 or 13.

I've often gotten down to about 9 (or even lower) while flaring and usually once the bleeding is under control and I'm able to tolerate/absorb iron supplements, it takes about 3-4 weeks till I'm back to normal. Iron injections can give you a much faster boost than oral iron (though it still takes a little while for the injection to bring up blood levels), but as long as it's going back up steadily it's probably not much to worry about.

Post Edited (lenagirl) : 3/14/2009 6:11:05 PM (GMT-6)