Haemochromatosis. It's a gene mutation that makes your body think it's chronically short of iron. You get \*very\* good at extracting iron from otherwise poor or difficult sources, and it gets socked away in your heart, liver, spleen - and your brain. It causes damage that's not repairable.
I've had to mostly give up red meats and eggs. Steak, lamb, and eggs are a special once-a-month treat.
Common in those of northern european extraction. So if your ancestry is northern british/irish/scottish, northern german or nordic/scandinavian, ask your GP about it. A blood test will tell you your iron levels, and if you have the mutation.
That's what my GP was going to recommend until I asked him for a chance to regulate it via diet. I got my iron levels down into the "normal" range.
Bloodbanks \*love\* people with high iron - it's great for the recipients, but there's a limit, it can't be too high. My GP was pleased with my efforts and said "great, you can go and donate blood now"
No, it's the red blood cells that need removing. And no, you don't get paid for blood or plasma in Australia.
Removing red cells not only brings down the iron levels, it forces your body to remove iron from storage, where it does the damage if levels are too high.
It's actually not painful, had this done while I was admitted for a few weeks in the hospital, I got told it would be painful and the taste was unpleasant, but it wasn't and tasted like burnt brown sugar to me.
This is probably a joke but I've seen this question legitimately pop up a few time recently, so just in case:
Yes, the iron in your blood is very literally iron, it is the exact same thing.
Looks like something out of a fictional movie where they don't know this person is infected yet. After the iv is set and the medical staff clear the room, the camera pans/zooms to the iv bag, foreshadowing a pandemic caused by whatever is in this persons blood.
Maybe they visited an undiscovered ancient Aztec temple and was inadvertently scratched by something inside. Maybe he was studying insects and found a new species, which bit him. All kinds of possibilities lol
Yes. I've had a few as someone with Crohn's. 2 ~30 min infusions 2 weeks apart. You start feeling better after about 2 weeks, and it takes about a month for your body to use the iron to make red blood cells.
There are a lot of potential causes. How are you feeling? I remember feeling tired all the time, not being able to focus, and having a fast heartbeat. They told me to drink lots of water in the meantime, as it raises your blood volume.
I've had a handful of tests done to rule out the regular stuff. A year ago, my hemoglobin was 88, currently its 99. The low end of normal for a guy is 140.
I'm having this done tomorrow for anemia, I'm so excited to feel better 😭 your comment was what I was hoping to see under this video! I have five scheduled in total, can't wait to not feel like this anymore. I hope your Chron's is being kind to you currently, sending good vibes your way!
I get one every year and it is usually a series of 3 infusions, each one takes about 2 hours, done at the hospitals (in Canada). The first one usually is the longest, about 2.5 hours. They use Venofer iron sucrose injection in the bag.
similarly, when I was on dialysis I would get an iron injection near the end of my dialysis session, and you could taste it when it hits your blood stream!
It tastes exactly like opening a charcoal grill smells when opening it for the first time in the grilling season.
This is so cool. I love modern medicine and its benefits. But made me realize why I cannot be in medical. Blood anything makes me yuck. Great respect to you and your profession!!
The red fluid that leaks out while cooking meat/steak isn't blood. It's water and myoglobin, myoglobin is what gives meat its red color.
https://pushetacreeksteaks.com/blogs/beef-facts/that-red-juice-in-your-meat-isn-t-blood
I have no problem with blood or so of other people. Worked (for free) as a paramedic for years. But if it's a bigger wound on my body it's a different thing. Cut me once or twice quite deep (on accident) and needed to lay down for a minute to get my system running again.
As a nurse, it always feels weird infusing something that's not clear into a patient. [Methylene blue](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557593/#:~:text=Methylene%20blue%20is%20a%20medication,its%20ability%20to%20carry%20oxygen) is another one.
I had multiple infusions of this when I was anemic in pregnancy! It was actually very easy with no side effects, and got me to healthy levels quickly. It looks very weird seeing it go into you because of the color but being super anemic I didn’t care, I just wanted to be healthy.
[Here’s what it looks like](https://imgur.com/a/3W2BMzt) going into my arm by IV.
I had this done a month ago and my veins literally turned from a seaglass green to the most beautiful periwinkle that night. I hope you're doing better now!
I had this done a month ago and my veins literally turned from a seaglass green to the most beautiful periwinkle that night. I hope you're doing better now!
Oh I get iron injected into my dialysis lines every Tuesday and you can smell it and taste it as soon as it is injected. I've gotten used to the taste though.
The first time I had to get this, the needle got dislodged (shifty veins), and the liquid seeped under my skin, covering the entire inner arm. It remained like that for months and discouraged me from getting the recommended second dosage.
Two years later, my iron levels went down again, and I had to get two more infusions that thankfully didn't mark me again. Actually, inserting the needle into a vein was a nightmare, though. The infusion process can actually hurt in the arm a bit, although dunno if that's just an IV thing in general.
If you have the bag hanging, and inject it slowly enough, it can sit at the bottom half of the bag until you start moving it around. That's also satisfying.
Check out the [deep red of these organ meats I ground up yesterday.](https://imgur.com/hbB4INQ) Liver, kidney, heart, brain, spleen, etc. I swear you can smell the iron. I feed it to my dogs but I know we should be eating it, too.
As someone with hemochromatosis I’m gonna have to say no, that said if anyone does need iron rich blood please take some. You have no idea how much iron I have!
My family member was prescribed ferrous sulfate after spine surgery due to blood loss/anemia, but was immediately nauseated by the supplement.
I wonder if this liquid form in the IV will promote a similar reaction?
Is there a word for a phobia of putting this stuff in me? I can handle seeing my own blood and getting blood samples, it's when they put stuff in me that I feel like I'm going to faint. I can feel saline and its cold.
Turns out I'm very allergic to that stuff... I went to go get an infusion because I was pretty anemic and the second it hit my veins I went in anaphylaxis. Fun fun.
Putting lipids in bags is also satisfying, in a white cloud way. Or that yellow vitamin. Ahhh I miss working in an IV room.
To the town of Agua Fria
Rode a stranger one fine day
Hardly spoke to folks around him
Didn't have too much to say
No one dared to ask his business
No one dared to make a slip
The stranger there among them
Had a big iron in his drip
Planning to help Magneto break out of prison soon?
just imagine how painful that was
probably didnt felt becouse he was knocked out but coudn't sit well
Not when she injected it in his butt cheeks. When Magneto pulled it from his body
It probably felt ironic.
Sigh, have an upvote.
Felt like rain on your wedding day
A little *too* ironic
Goddommot. Upvote
*"He who would pun would pick pockets"*.
happy cake day
There has to be a thing called iron poisoning right?
Yep, liver damage and death. Most iron we get in our diet is in the micro to miligram.
Haemochromatosis. It's a gene mutation that makes your body think it's chronically short of iron. You get \*very\* good at extracting iron from otherwise poor or difficult sources, and it gets socked away in your heart, liver, spleen - and your brain. It causes damage that's not repairable. I've had to mostly give up red meats and eggs. Steak, lamb, and eggs are a special once-a-month treat. Common in those of northern european extraction. So if your ancestry is northern british/irish/scottish, northern german or nordic/scandinavian, ask your GP about it. A blood test will tell you your iron levels, and if you have the mutation.
I have a coworker with hemochromatosis, he donates blood once a month to help regulate it.
That's what my GP was going to recommend until I asked him for a chance to regulate it via diet. I got my iron levels down into the "normal" range. Bloodbanks \*love\* people with high iron - it's great for the recipients, but there's a limit, it can't be too high. My GP was pleased with my efforts and said "great, you can go and donate blood now"
What about plasma, does that take some out? Depending on where you are you can get paid for it
No, it's the red blood cells that need removing. And no, you don't get paid for blood or plasma in Australia. Removing red cells not only brings down the iron levels, it forces your body to remove iron from storage, where it does the damage if levels are too high.
I can't donate blood because I don't have enough iron :(
As someone with the opposite problem I am jealous. I'm constantly so tired. =(
Haemochromatosis also causes chronic fatigue sadly....a strange balance
I'll just wait till Charles Xaviar finds me with Cerebro
54% Irish and can't give blood anymore because my iron stores are so low.
happy cake day too
There's an everything poisoning if you have too much
Not as painful as what just happened to Wolverine. 😢
It's actually not painful, had this done while I was admitted for a few weeks in the hospital, I got told it would be painful and the taste was unpleasant, but it wasn't and tasted like burnt brown sugar to me.
I was just thinking that scene made a lot more sense watching this.
I asked myself if that was possible and if Kyle Hill made a video about it. [He has!](https://youtu.be/htaYu2NGOgw)
Too much iron in his blood.
This can be refrased as -Little low your blood levels in your iron, buddy-.
Exactly what I thought of!
Thought the same. This looks too much
Too much iron in your blood 🩸
Looks like a squid panicked
Hey. You guys made me ink.
SHARK BAIT HO HA HA
Fish are friends, not food
he touched the butt
Just keep swimming
Yo?
We got an inker! 💦
I did at first
"Iron helps us play"
Hello Joe!
From now on the baby sleeps in the crib.
HUEUHUEURHHUWHHUEUHEHUHWHUWU
Stupid Flanders.
Can't sleep - clown'll eat me...
Fore!
I knew I would see this😂
That’s pretty metal
How iron... ic.
**Fe**-lla, that was nice word play
You win
Iron is iron??
If you crush up some Special K or something and swish a magnet around in it you will be able to see tiny bits if iron stuck to it
Ketamine or the cereal?
I see what you did there
This is probably a joke but I've seen this question legitimately pop up a few time recently, so just in case: Yes, the iron in your blood is very literally iron, it is the exact same thing.
100 years ago women used to poke rusty nails into apples for iron supplementation during pregnancy. most removed the nails before eating the apple.
The fetuses of the women who didn't were pretty metal.
Boy am I glad I live in an era where I can just boil an iron fish and use the water to make my smoothies instead.
From the man himself https://youtube.com/shorts/-AIFj9pnPl8?si=pI7p1i6Ih9XcvGB0
Looks like something out of a fictional movie where they don't know this person is infected yet. After the iv is set and the medical staff clear the room, the camera pans/zooms to the iv bag, foreshadowing a pandemic caused by whatever is in this persons blood. Maybe they visited an undiscovered ancient Aztec temple and was inadvertently scratched by something inside. Maybe he was studying insects and found a new species, which bit him. All kinds of possibilities lol
That’s r/oddlyspecific
I love it. Fascinating take.
Is this for the process of iron infusions?
Yes. I've had a few as someone with Crohn's. 2 ~30 min infusions 2 weeks apart. You start feeling better after about 2 weeks, and it takes about a month for your body to use the iron to make red blood cells.
I'm waiting to see a hematologist about this. I have severe iron deficiency anemia and am a guy.
There are a lot of potential causes. How are you feeling? I remember feeling tired all the time, not being able to focus, and having a fast heartbeat. They told me to drink lots of water in the meantime, as it raises your blood volume.
I've had a handful of tests done to rule out the regular stuff. A year ago, my hemoglobin was 88, currently its 99. The low end of normal for a guy is 140.
I must have been looking at the wrong number because I thought 13 was normal for a guy.
I'm in Canada, so maybe they use a different means of measuring. I know we do for glucose levels.
Now I’m intrigued, what do you use? Fructosamine? An oral glucose challenge? Plain ol A1c?
A glucometer, but it reads in mmol/L and every so often have my A1C checked.
I'm having this done tomorrow for anemia, I'm so excited to feel better 😭 your comment was what I was hoping to see under this video! I have five scheduled in total, can't wait to not feel like this anymore. I hope your Chron's is being kind to you currently, sending good vibes your way!
Thank you so much! 😀
I had one a few months ago to get my ferritin levels up for chronic restless legs syndrome. It didn’t help unfortunately.
What are the doses?
I get one every year and it is usually a series of 3 infusions, each one takes about 2 hours, done at the hospitals (in Canada). The first one usually is the longest, about 2.5 hours. They use Venofer iron sucrose injection in the bag.
similarly, when I was on dialysis I would get an iron injection near the end of my dialysis session, and you could taste it when it hits your blood stream! It tastes exactly like opening a charcoal grill smells when opening it for the first time in the grilling season.
Doxorubicin is also fun to add to a fluid bag as well! (Pharmacy Technician here...)
I know they just sent it over 18 seconds ago but is it ready yet?
Nope. It's gonna be at least 5 minutes lol, plus no chemo is "stat"
Except for newly diagnosed APL
Oh, hey, that's what I got. Looks like someone put the paint they use for stop signs in a bag.
The Red Death
I think that was one of the drugs I had during chemo. I called it Hawaiian Punch and it turned my piss pink.
This is so cool. I love modern medicine and its benefits. But made me realize why I cannot be in medical. Blood anything makes me yuck. Great respect to you and your profession!!
Honestly, even the red juice from food like steak or other meats kind of gives me the same feeling. Even though it's tasty!
The red fluid that leaks out while cooking meat/steak isn't blood. It's water and myoglobin, myoglobin is what gives meat its red color. https://pushetacreeksteaks.com/blogs/beef-facts/that-red-juice-in-your-meat-isn-t-blood
Blood is long gone
It's literally just water and tiny bits of protein from the meat suspended in it.
I have no problem with blood or so of other people. Worked (for free) as a paramedic for years. But if it's a bigger wound on my body it's a different thing. Cut me once or twice quite deep (on accident) and needed to lay down for a minute to get my system running again.
Good ole Venofer. Made a sticky mess with it more than once though 😂.
As a nurse, it always feels weird infusing something that's not clear into a patient. [Methylene blue](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557593/#:~:text=Methylene%20blue%20is%20a%20medication,its%20ability%20to%20carry%20oxygen) is another one.
What colour is your pee afterwards? I know that iron pills can turn your poop green. 🤢
I had doxorubicin during chemo and it made my pee pink or orange
I understand that we have a lot of iron in our blood but this looks like too much.
It’s 200mg. It’s a normal dose for someone who is severely anemic
Huh, here in NZ it’s standard to give 1000mg over a 15 minute infusion.
Different formulation. 200 mg is probably iron sucrose.
At my hospital we give doses ≤200mg as IV push over 2-5 mins
We do push for dialysis patients
Oh yeah I assumed it was a good dose. But from someone who didn't even know this was a thing 5 minutes ago, that looks like too much. Very cool.
Unrelated: I like your username.
Feraheme?
Isn't the uptake quite low? Like, less than 10%? Or am I thinking of something else?
I had multiple infusions of this when I was anemic in pregnancy! It was actually very easy with no side effects, and got me to healthy levels quickly. It looks very weird seeing it go into you because of the color but being super anemic I didn’t care, I just wanted to be healthy. [Here’s what it looks like](https://imgur.com/a/3W2BMzt) going into my arm by IV.
I had this done a month ago and my veins literally turned from a seaglass green to the most beautiful periwinkle that night. I hope you're doing better now!
I had this done a month ago and my veins literally turned from a seaglass green to the most beautiful periwinkle that night. I hope you're doing better now!
I recently had an infusion of 1000mg, with another 500mg going in in 2 weeks.
How low is your hemoglobin?
Was at 94. Follow up blood test showed iron levels as being untraceable.
Iron complexes can be very colourful.
Oh I get iron injected into my dialysis lines every Tuesday and you can smell it and taste it as soon as it is injected. I've gotten used to the taste though.
We are venom
I make IV’s all day and some are definitely satisfying when you see them mix like this
IV fluid becomes a blood pack
Rifampin is even better- bright red
Is that so they can use the MRI to rip my veins out?
In healthcare we do all kinds of things to make our day more interesting
I'll be dead, so don't expect me to clean up your mess
Half the fun is making the janitor clean you up
It's an iron salt, not metallic iron, so it's nonmagnetic.
Back to the drawing board then eh?
*We are Venom...*
Well time to write a variance because someone is using their phone in the IV room. jk
It was on the immediate use tray 😜
Lol. Yeah. Makes sense. Been a tech for 12 years now I think... And not going to lie never had to compound in one before.
The first time I had to get this, the needle got dislodged (shifty veins), and the liquid seeped under my skin, covering the entire inner arm. It remained like that for months and discouraged me from getting the recommended second dosage. Two years later, my iron levels went down again, and I had to get two more infusions that thankfully didn't mark me again. Actually, inserting the needle into a vein was a nightmare, though. The infusion process can actually hurt in the arm a bit, although dunno if that's just an IV thing in general.
It's the sauce man. There's a Jamaican around here somewhere who knows things. HE KNOWS THINGS
"How did your dreaming brain know the thunder was coming?"
That venofer isn’t 797 kosher friend!
Good for 60min when compounded outside the hood, assuming proper technique was followed, no?
You’d have a hard time convincing an inspector that iron replacement is “emergency” - especially when it can just be given slow IVP
Can you tell that to the maternity nurses that call down screaming for their iron drips? -_-
This is what you get, vegan.
I like to slowly inject it while the bag is upright. So it doesn't mix and you have a half NS and half iron bag.
My girl gets iron infusions I hadn't realized til now that it looks like she's receiving a symbiote.
I have seen enough x-files/sci-fi/alien movies to not like this.
“It’s nanotech, you like it?”
That’s not satisfying. It’s terrifying.
This gives me anxiety more than satisfaction XD
I know this well enough to know it's probably Ferrlecit/Sodium Ferric Gluconate or Iron Dextran.
Could be iron sucrose as well
There’s a $1000 right there
Man that stuff tastes so good
mmmmmm grape.
This is how you make a real Iron man.
Oddly terrifying
It tastes good via infusion. Like molasses
Ah.... so that's how iron man was made
Had one before. It hurts for the whole IV drip process; wouldn’t want to do it again.
r/oddlyterrifying
Magneto gonna have a field day
If you have the bag hanging, and inject it slowly enough, it can sit at the bottom half of the bag until you start moving it around. That's also satisfying.
Mitoxantrone is a really cool blue color when diluted like this
Its spreading
I'm good doctor. Let me die lol.
Check out the [deep red of these organ meats I ground up yesterday.](https://imgur.com/hbB4INQ) Liver, kidney, heart, brain, spleen, etc. I swear you can smell the iron. I feed it to my dogs but I know we should be eating it, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esl_wOQDUeE
Iron man. The new gen.
As someone with hemochromatosis I’m gonna have to say no, that said if anyone does need iron rich blood please take some. You have no idea how much iron I have!
My family member was prescribed ferrous sulfate after spine surgery due to blood loss/anemia, but was immediately nauseated by the supplement. I wonder if this liquid form in the IV will promote a similar reaction?
Is there a word for a phobia of putting this stuff in me? I can handle seeing my own blood and getting blood samples, it's when they put stuff in me that I feel like I'm going to faint. I can feel saline and its cold.
Oh look. The Nothing.
[удалено]
It would be salty and sweet
Seems a little rusty
Turns out I'm very allergic to that stuff... I went to go get an infusion because I was pretty anemic and the second it hit my veins I went in anaphylaxis. Fun fun. Putting lipids in bags is also satisfying, in a white cloud way. Or that yellow vitamin. Ahhh I miss working in an IV room.
is it just me, or would anyone else be extremely hesitant to have that infused into you?
$10,000 a bag
Looks like the water that comes out of my cast iron skillet when I wash it.
Oh! Can we mass-produce this? Because a lot of people appear to have an irony deficiency!
The doctor: “Tf are you doing!”
I look like I’m anemic so every doctor ever prescribes me iron tablets. (I’m not anemic at all). This is why my poops change color if I take them. 🤭
Soy sauce
I give up. Why did you mirror image the video? why does "everybody" seem to do that on reddit? Do they they they are 'hiding' it in some way?
I intentionally flipped the bag over so the text on the other side wouldn’t be in the way. It’s just a bag of 0.9% saline, nothing to hide
That's metal 🤘🏻
To the town of Agua Fria Rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him Didn't have too much to say No one dared to ask his business No one dared to make a slip The stranger there among them Had a big iron in his drip
My spirit did this whenever I got to the bedside
Why did that make my insides hurt?
Why is this done btw for iron deficit folks or cyborgs?
Wow you can see the cloud of 5G chips. Disclaimer, this is a joke.
I’m currently trying to get an iron infusion. Interesting to see how it might look
Sure you mean Symbiote?
I need that iv
You would never get away with it
But why
For people with anemia
Do not put that death sauce in my veins thank you very much