Man, I can't tell you how awesome it is to have low iron. Not only does it guarantee you one of those fun finger-stabbings every time you visit the doctor, but it also generally means another supplement--yippee!
The great thing about the iron supplement is that it causes constipation and nausea--and to make things interesting it shouldn't be taken with calcium (because it will bind to the calcium and then not get absorbed by your body).
If, hypothetically, the finger prick and extra supplement aren't your idea of a good time, well, no one is forcing you to do them; you are welcome to just suffer the exhaustion and complete draining of energy that accompanies low iron.
Now, imagine the best of both worlds--taking the supplement, eating all sorts of foods that are high in iron, suffering the constipation and nausea, making sure that you eat your servings of calcium at a different time than taking the pill, STILL suffering intense bouts of energy loss, and then getting your pricked a month later only to find out that your iron count has dropped.
Do you:
a) stop taking the supplement because it obviously doesn't do any good
b) try to figure out if there might be something else you are doing that inhibits absorption
c) take a finger-pricker thing and stab it into the nurse saying "see how you like it?"
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d) all of the above
e) drink lots of prune juice. it tastes like hell (i don't know any other way to put it) but it's better than liver, right?!
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