07/02/2025
Iron is an essential building block for new blood. Patients who are deficient may develop anemia.
When one is deficient in iron the body struggles to function .
The following symptoms can develop:
-headaches
-feeling tired all the time
-fainting or near fainting
-body aches and pains
- poor sleep or Insomnia
-mood changes and irritability
-thinning and losing hair
- shortness of breath even with light activity
-Intense cravings
The bottom line is that if you are iron deficient it’s almost impossible to eat right, sleep right, move right and manage stress right. I typically make sure my patients are first repleted before I get into lifestyle changes.
Menstruating women tend to be bar far the most common cause but malabsorption, poor diet and other causes of blood loss are also possibilities.
Oral iron supplement can be very effective if taken , but in a lot of patients cause GI side effects like constipation, nausea and abdomjnal pain.
IV iron is very safe and very effective. Iron levels become normal soon afterwards and symptoms go away and usually patients feel like a new person!
Call Aroga at (647) 805-8695 if you have questions or scan the QR code if this is something you are suffering from so we can help.