i dunno.
not a whole lot better.
nobody'd ever heard of hepcidin, or knew how to test me for it, so i had to settle for taking the iron pills blindly. so, i'm on 300 mg of iron, and i just seem to be shitting it out.
i don't need to absorb huge amounts of this iron to reverse the decline in my ferritin. i'm going to hope it works well enough that it at least stabilizes it, and then we can take it from there. certainly, if you give me 300 mg of iron every day and my ferritin keeps falling, i must have something substantively blocking absorption.
but, what if you give me 300 mg of ferritin and i just barely get into the 20s after two months? it's better, at least, right? but, it would just demonstrate the point.
if i can absorb this iron, it means there must be something interfering with the absorption of the other iron, after all, and i can go back and look at interactions.
but, right now, i'm still extremely tired and need to sleep a bit.