A relevant experience of mine: after being vegan for ~1 year, I got my blood tested to see if there was anything I should watch out for. It turned out that my iron reserves were low, so I was told to take iron supplements. One year later I got another blood test where my iron levels came back as too high. My doctor was confused until I told him I still sporadically took iron supplements; he told me to stop immediately, and that as a male I didn’t need to supplement iron much.
Now I feel like I’m in a damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t limbo; it would be great to have some sort of framework of when/if to take iron supplements.
Did you notice supplementing iron making you feel better? If so, perhaps it would be worth getting several tests and adjusting your dose until the tests come back consistently normal?
A relevant experience of mine: after being vegan for ~1 year, I got my blood tested to see if there was anything I should watch out for. It turned out that my iron reserves were low, so I was told to take iron supplements. One year later I got another blood test where my iron levels came back as too high. My doctor was confused until I told him I still sporadically took iron supplements; he told me to stop immediately, and that as a male I didn’t need to supplement iron much.
Now I feel like I’m in a damned-if-I-do-damned-if-I-don’t limbo; it would be great to have some sort of framework of when/if to take iron supplements.
Is there not an option to take a lower dose of iron supplements?
Sure, but my point was I don’t know what dose per unit time to take.
One what later? Year, month?
Whoops, I meant year. Edited.
Did you notice supplementing iron making you feel better? If so, perhaps it would be worth getting several tests and adjusting your dose until the tests come back consistently normal?
I didn’t feel a difference; I guess because it was my iron reserves that were low, not my actual iron levels.
But yeah, if it does continue to be a problem I will do something like that.