Did anyone recover from anaemia or low ferritin and recover their hair?
Did anyone recover from anaemia or low ferritin and recover their hair? How long did it take? What improvements if any did you notice?
I recently had a transfusion and combined with symptoms and recovery I realise that I have probably dealt with iron deficiency since the onset of my periods. It got flagged aa I started fainting last year (and have historically as a teen), my doctor said all my tests were fine and asked me if i was stressed I said in the last couple weeks and they said it's probably stress.
Months later i read the test and saw anaemia in capitals in red from the tests I was told were fine. I went private and got an iron infusion, supplement plan and have sorted out heavy periods. I historically have had low vitamin d but fixed that too in the last year and that has reduced my shedding overall substantially and my temples and hairline improved but are still lacking.
I'm 28 and my temples are deeply receding and hair along my hairline is fine and short. I also have shorter hair kind of diffused through out my hair (mostly centre and front) that I don't do anything diffrently too. All the women in my family down to my great grandparents on both side had hair into their 90s.
I genuinely have felt horrible until getting my iron sorted but I didn't realise how terribly it effected my physical health hair aside. Like I was getting out of breath going up a flight of stairs and stopped going to the gym as I felt like I was dying. I felt like I was seriously ageing in my twenties and was getting bad joint pains. Thankfully immediately after and even more so alomst a month after infusions I am feeling much better, I'm just wondering if I will ever get my hair back.