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My hemoglobin is a 6 been like this for awhile im having really bad headaches is that normal?

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Dr. Charles Cattano answered

Hgb 6 is really low: ...so no wonder you're having bad headaches. Might want to get that corrected, especially since symptomatic.

Dr Fowler agreed

Answered 5/11/2017

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