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Hey Aly,
I also have anemia. I was diagnosed with it after I had open heart surgery a little over a year ago. They said I had lost too much blood. Their solution as well was eat beef, cook on an iron pan, and eat greeen leafy vegetables. Hmm... I dont have an iron pan, and the other things make me terribly sick. So honestly I just deal. I refuse to take iron pills. They also make my stomach feel like it wants to jump out of my body. But just recently I have been having some heart problems again (and random morning IBS attacks) so I went back to the doc and he had me do bloodwork for my tyroid, electrolytes and anemia. So we will see how that comes out. I unfortunelty I dont know what to do to help the anemia seeing as the solutions none of us IBSers can tolerate. I also plan on getting pregnant this summer and I know my doc. is going to want to put me on iron pills and I dont know what I'm going to do.
Well sorry this didnt really help you, but youre not the alone!

Stefanie

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