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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clase" data-source="post: 2753901" data-attributes="member: 228405"><p>I'm glad that you've been successful on the NHS.  The protocol in our local hospital is that if the haemoglobin isn't low then they won't do it and mine had gone up since I was put on iron tablets in November.  I didn't respond to the iron tablets either.  The last time I was put on them a couple of years ago, 2 per day at that point it went down again.  My doctor says current thinking is to take them every other day so I do it religiously leaving the recommended time but still went down.  I too have the usual symptoms, background headache, constant tiredness, cramps which interrupt my sleep (another no no for diabetes) and restless legs, another sleep disrupter, sores on the corners of my mouth and real brain fog!  I think my body's inability to absorb B12 , which does resolve with pills,  is a consequence of approx. 25 years on Metformin and the low ferritin is about 20 years on PPIs all of which are prescribed and not something I'm doing to myself.  They are a direct result of living with Diabetes which is why it infuriates me so much that the NHS won't treat it! Hey ho!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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