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Problems With Anemia

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Hi, I was diagnosed with celiac disease last year after my miscarriage. I've been feeling sick a lot and it's just gotten progressively worse. I had to go to the ER a few weeks ago and was diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia after I had a CBC test

(RBC 3.43 HGB 8.7 HCT 27.9)

Anyway I'm not feeling any better but I was wondering if anyone else has iron deficiency anemia or if celiac disease can cause anemias that are more dangerous or serious than just iron deficiency. Thanks.

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Hi, I was diagnosed with celiac disease last year after my miscarriage. I've been feeling sick a lot and it's just gotten progressively worse. I had to go to the ER a few weeks ago and was diagnosed with iron deficiency anemia after I had a CBC test

(RBC 3.43 HGB 8.7 HCT 27.9)

Anyway I'm not feeling any better but I was wondering if anyone else has iron deficiency anemia or if celiac disease can cause anemias that are more dangerous or serious than just iron deficiency. Thanks.

It sure can! I had ferritin levels of zero, and dangerously low iron. Went to two hematologists, one on 57th Street in Manhattan, and they didn't even consider Celiac. I also had all kinds of tests done, at various NYC hospitals, and the doctors never suggested, or tested for, Celiac.

BTW, are you on a gluten free diet?

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Celiac can cause a B12 deficiency - its common to have both iron and B12 anaemias together - and B12 is not normally tested as part of the CBC. Low B12 is also linked to miscarriages. This newspaper carried a story about that just recently. Make sure Folate is also tested when you get the B12 tested.

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Before I was diagnosed with Celiac I was anemic. I had suffered with low ferratin levels for years and took iron pills that made me very sick. Finally this summer I went to like my 50th doctor and she told me about Celiac disease. She told me that deficiencies like that are a symptom of something else usually.

Since going on the gluten free diet I have been feeling much better! If you are not on the diet you should be! Best of luck to you!

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