Symptoms of iron poisoning?

January 26, 2011

I know some folks here have been high iron. Can anyone enlighten me as to what

are symptoms of that?

I am asking because I am having a really dreadful week. I left work after only

half a day twice this week so far and I'm really struggling and quite baffled.

I have my period and I am bleeding heavily. For years, I took high doses of b

complex and iron to treat restless leg syndrome. I always took the b first,

aware that you can end up poisoned by minerals. So I tried to play it

conservatively. I am 45 and didn't get regular (monthly) periods until I was 40.

I didn't realize how severely anemic I was my whole life until I began having

regular periods and stopped being so badly symptomatic for anemia all the time.

In recent months, I no longer take iron supplements. I went through a few weeks

where I was cooking spinach regularly instead of taking iron supplements but I

am not even craving foods like that right now. Yet someone at work noted that I

was very pale today and I have no energy, which are indicators of anemia. I am

wondering if this is kind of the way die-off causes one to become temporarily

more symptomatic -- have worse warts and stuff.

I am wondering if the high need for iron was not that I wasn't getting enough

but that my body wasn't doing the right things with it and it ended up being an

excess that wasn't really used -- the way a desert can flood with not terribly

much rain because the ground will just not absorb it (if that makes sense -- it

made sense to my son).

Anyway, it's been a while since I was unable to figure out the cause of some

crisis and this is pretty bad. So looking for ideas/feedback.

Thanks in advance.

Michele

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