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Iron supplements can irritate the stomach and cause constipation. You haven’t said if your stool consistency has changed, so I’ll focus on the stomach. Are you taking exactly the dose prescribed by your doctor? How much are you taking per day?

Although iron is best absorbed on an empty stomach it’s easier to tolerate when there’s some food in the stomach. Don’t take it with high-fiber foods, dairy products, or caffeine, but otherwise just eat a bit with each dose. You can increase absorption with Vitamin C (or orange juice), and there are iron formulations that combine them (e.g. Vitron-C). You can also try different kinds of iron (e.g. ferrous gluconate) or multiple smaller doses to see if that helps.

I had issues with too low hemoglobin blood level since my colitis times. And I always had trouble with iron tabs. As my doc also wanted me to take such tabs, I took those with a very low dosage. But since I have a pouch I always had infusions. In the last years that was a med with 500 mg of iron per ampulla. That reduced infusion intervals to 3 months and in the current year I could extend that to more than 6 months, always considering hemoglobin and ferritine (an iron storage indicating blood level) as reference for the next infusion.

If you don't get rid of trouble with iron tabs I would ask your doc to give you an infusion. There are no digestive problems with that.

Steve

@SteveG posted:

I had issues with too low hemoglobin blood level since my colitis times. And I always had trouble with iron tabs. As my doc also wanted me to take such tabs, I took those with a very low dosage. But since I have a pouch I always had infusions. In the last years that was a med with 500 mg of iron per ampulla. That reduced infusion intervals to 3 months and in the current year I could extend that to more than 6 months, always considering hemoglobin and ferritine (an iron storage indicating blood level) as reference for the next infusion.

If you don't get rid of trouble with iron tabs I would ask your doc to give you an infusion. There are no digestive problems with that.

Steve

Perfect idea

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