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Is it common to need an endoscopy due to my low blood count?
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Yes.: If you are iron deficient, the cause needs to be found. The only way a healthy adult becomes iron deficient is by blood loss. If you are not a menstruating female, there must have been blood loss in the stool (or rarely in the urine). It is common to do endoscopy (to see the stomach) and colonoscopy to look for possible sites of bleeding.
Answered 2/2/2017
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