Low iron ?

[mumziemcvoy]

Am going to make an appointment with doctors tomorrow just wondering if any of you have experienced this and had low iron

I feel really tired and simple tasks like walking upstairs , lifting up my arms , picking up my daughter make me feel horrid and shakey and breathless and my heart beats really fast I also get a funny feeling go all around my back and into my bump
I seem to remember something similar with my last pregnancy and was put on iron but can't remember exactly
Thanks for reading

 

[Kirsty3051]

Sounds about right I've been on iron pills since early on with our first

 

[MindUtopia]

That's very much how I felt when I was anaemic, except it was so severe I would feel like I was going to pass out and I couldn't catch my breath if I tried to walk anywhere. That's a pretty severe case of it (it wasn't during pregnancy and my iron levels were like 6.2!). But if you do find you're iron is low, I'd recommend taking the iron tablets or at least as long as you can tolerate them just to give you a boost, plus adding in Floravital (it's high potency Floradix with iron and B vitamins), Spatone, and also vitamin C (either in tablet or a glass of orange juice) at every meal. That's what helped me.

 

[LilianA]

I get it in every pregnancy and after i give birth.. It feels exactly like you described .. I hope you feel better soon

 

[2have4kids]

Iron is hard to absorb and the non-bio forms of it can leave you constipated and pooping most of the pill out. Many of the prenatal vits also combine iron with calcium (iron binds with calcuim in the gut leaving you with tummy pains and anemia). I have some juice in the morning with a liquid iron called Floradix, it's super easy to absorb as long as you don't have calcium, milk or dairy in the same 3 hour span of taking the iron.
Iron is as important during pregnancy as folic acid, anemia in mom during pregnancy has been linked to childhood cognitive developmental problems like ADHD, ADD, and learning impairments. It has serious long term consequences.

EDIT: here's one of the academic studies on how anemia effects your baby:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3779843/

Easy absorbable Iron:

Spatone https://www.boots.com/en/Spatone-Li...Apple-Taste-with-Vitamin-C-28-x-25ml_1205198/ <--a british B&B lady recommended this one & it looks yummy!

Floradix: https://www.florahealth.com/product_categories.cfm?category_id=4&prod_id=87

 

[mumziemcvoy]

thank you ladies have felt a bit better this evening am pretty sure that's what it is will be onto the doctor first thing x

 

[littlesteph]

sounds like a mixture of low iron and low blood pressure.
I had to take iron tablets in my last pregnancy but because it messed up with my ibs had to stop taking them.
if you try and eat foods with iron in them and keep a snack and a cold drink with you.

 

[2have4kids]

sounds like a mixture of low iron and low blood pressure.
I had to take iron tablets in my last pregnancy but because it messed up with my ibs had to stop taking them.
if you try and eat foods with iron in them and keep a snack and a cold drink with you.

Have you tried liquid iron? To get 27 iron/day, the min for pregnant ladies, you'd have to eat 10+ heaping plates of spinach and because veg form iron doesn't absorb that well you'd prob need more

Spatone is great tablet alternative and way less likely than a pill to upset your delicate system with ibs. Anemia has terrible long term consequences for baby, I hope something else works for you because it's super hard to get enough iron from food sources.

 

[littlesteph]

sounds like a mixture of low iron and low blood pressure.
I had to take iron tablets in my last pregnancy but because it messed up with my ibs had to stop taking them.
if you try and eat foods with iron in them and keep a snack and a cold drink with you.

Have you tried liquid iron? To get 27 iron/day, the min for pregnant ladies, you'd have to eat 10+ heaping plates of spinach and because veg form iron doesn't absorb that well you'd prob need more

Spatone is great tablet alternative and way less likely than a pill to upset your delicate system with ibs. Anemia has terrible long term consequences for baby, I hope something else works for you because it's super hard to get enough iron from food sources.

I've not tried it no, midwife wants to check my iron levels again when I next see her because of my dizzy spells, iron has come back normal this time, she said that can change quite quickly in pregnancy

 

[2have4kids]

If there weren't such serious long term impacts on baby I wouldn't be do concerned with low iron, but it's just not worth the risks...have a look at the study link I posted littlesteph, it can mean years of ADD/ADHD/learning disabities and psychological problems. Take care of yourself & baby xx

 

[mumziemcvoy]

Would it be enough to take just the multivits ? I got a blood test booked tomorrow and will obviously wait to see what they say but prove start taking the pregnacare again till the results are back to see if I feel better ?