• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    Does your blood center not test iron before taking a donation?

    Every time I’ve donated, they took a lancet to one of my fingers for a drop of blood and checked how fast it sank in some sort of liquid.

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      3 days ago

      It was low enough for me to be deferred once. They said I could take just a Flintstone vitamin daily for the week before my donation. I was doing that but also mentioned that to my doctor. The numbers I gave him then he said weren’t concerning. My last visit was like a few weeks after my donation and I didn’t take the vitamins afterwards.