Does anyone here suffer from anemia?

I noticed it again maybe 2 or 3 months ago when my hair started drying out and breaking. So mum really had to cut my hair. I thought I was getting on top of things by eating better. But I've noticed a white ring around my mouth. My lips are always dry and go white.

I'm going to start the high does of iron tablets today but if you can recommend any tips I'd really appreciate it!

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

I take an iron supplement that has raspberry extract in it because it’s easy on my digestion and the iron absorbs much better. Also if you can get some concentrated chlorophyll (Cloroxygen brand is a good one and good price since it’s concentrated) that is really good to give you energy and help the iron to absorb. I didn’t know I was getting anemic and was on the highest altitude mountain in Africa and got so short of breath I couldn’t make it to the top and it wasn’t that far. When I got home I started taking iron & chlorophyll & it helped a lot but took time to build up my iron. I didn’t know it at the time but I was using 2 different shades of lipstick made by L’Oreal that were contaminated with lead. After they stopped making & selling them & I stopped using them my iron levels built up good and then I found them on a consumer list of lipsticks that were found to have lead in them.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Revlon is the only lipstick I've ever found that is lead free. I'm sure there are others now...but...scary, huh?

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou I don’t even think the Dollar Tree lipsticks are that bad. I thought L’Oreal was a good brand, they make enough money they could have the pigments tested. I have thought for the longest time that this contamination of foods, packaging, cosmetics, hygiene and cleaning products is being done deliberately by corporations with the blessing of the FDA so that we are slowly poisoned and have to get medical intervention. The big pharmaceutical companies are profiting heavily off of it.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti The FDA is a joke. When I found out that their newly appointed CEO...(appointed by the GOVERNMENT!!!), was the former CEO that blessed us all with the poisonous Roundup weedkiller, I knew the agency was being bought.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou FDA officials accepted free junkets (trips to places like Las Vegas and Hawaii) paid for by the pharmaceutical companies and that was exposed on 60 Minutes years ago.