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My low iron levels have actually gotten worse after being put on a iron/vit c regimen. besides bleeding, what can cause and sustain such low iron?

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Serious stuff: The very fact that you're a man who's iron-deficient in the first place is worrisome unless you're a non-supplementing vegetarian. You've got hookworm, a stomach ulcer, stomach or colon cancer, gluten enteropathy, whipple's, or something similarly nasty until proved otherwise.

Answered 4/8/2014

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Hemoglobin 13.7 low iron .Need to be concern? What's problem. Not bleeding. Anemic before w/ transfusons.Transfusions again. Iron level from the labs MCV or mvc. My hematologist was concerned. Ideas?

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