Ferritin levels

What is a good ferritin level for anyone?

If it was under 50, I'd start worrying. I like mine over 200.

Trends are super important. Chart your levels, for ferritin and everything else, whenever you have labs drawn. Though your level may be good -- now -- if it has gone down several times in a row, you should act sooner rather than later.

I found out that my iron levels were ok and I was not anemic but my Ferritin was 10. I had increased my oral iron supplement and it didn't change my ferritin level. I had an iron infusion in 2016 and my ferritin increased to 202. My level is consistently going down and is now at 75 - so I will need another iron infusion sometime in 2018. I'm surprised it has stayed up for so long - but I guess that's just my body.

Hope you find answers.

Penny

My ferritin was 122 in 2016 and now 69. My doctors are telling me this is ok. I stopped using the patch and go back to pills. They told me to check in 6 months.

My Ferritin level is checked every 6 months by a Oncologist/Hematologist. 75 was not low enough to have an iron infusion but since it continues to go down, I will eventually need another one.

If oral iron works for you, that's great, but my body does not absorb iron supplements.

Penny