Hi friends,
I have been diagnosed with anemia and I do infusions every 3 months. My question is that most of the foods that have iron are hard for J-Pouchers to digest..so what do I do???
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Seafood, red meat, pork, and poultry are all high-iron foods, and most of us digest those just fine. Iron supplements combined with Vitamin C tend to be better absorbed than plain iron supplements. Good luck!
I have a j-pouch and I found spinach to be my superfood. I eat it almost every day.
However really you need to figure out they WHY. I had super heavy periods and once I solved that I was able to keep my numbers in range.
Annikki,
How did you fix the heavy period situation?
I had an Endometrial ablation in 2013 that solved the heavy bleeding but I have seriously wicked cramps. In 2016 I had Uterine Fibroid Embolization which took my periods from light to even lighter but I am still have painful periods.