IV iron How long did it take after the first treatment to see results?

I had a series of 3 treatments in 1 week at the end of Sept/04. The specialist said I had to wait 3 months to let the Venofer work then get my blood checked. I did the blood work last week and will be seeing the specialist next week for the results. Physically I feel like the treatments did NOTHING. Still very tired and run down, too tired to do any meaningful exercise and am therefore a slow loser. My September feratin test was 1 and reticulocytes(baby red blood cells) were dangerously low. Bone marrow not producing enough, don't know if it is directly related to low feratin or something separate. Will find out next week. My question then is this---if you have had iron IV, and your feratin was similar to mine, how long and how many treatments did you have to get to "normal"? open rny, 150 cm bypass, aug/03, -105 lbs, 40 more to go.

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