Ferritin and swaying

I’ve not been on here in a while as in the last 11 months or so I’ve been trying to recover physically from a period of being unwell. I’m not sure why but September 2017 my hormones went wacky, ferritin dropped, started getting awful constant headaches and hair started falling out. This all followed a long period of stress about various things including my longing for a dd.

Since then I have been working on slowly getting my nutrition and health back, and try has been pushed to the side. I visited a hair doctor/tricologist recently and he diagnosed me with chronic hair loss due to low ferritin and prescribed a vitamin for 3 months which has ferrous fumarate and l-lycine (an amino acid which you get from red meat), and said he wants my ferritin at 100 to stop my hair loss. So now I’m basically swaying blue inadvertently.

My question is, is it possible to sway pink whilst maintaining a good ferritin level? Presuming he’s right and the hair loss will stop once my ferritin is stable (hair loss started when ferritin was 28), is it possible to sway pink whilst taking a maintenance dose of ferrous fumarate or eating red meat? I would still do the no breakfast, no Snacking, low fat rules. I am so desperate to sway but don’t want to be bald or ill and I worry that my body is so used to a high level of protein and fat that it kind of goes into shock a bit when I significantly reduce these.

Just to say as well that I’ve now managed to get my ferritin up to 52 and hair loss is better but still more than it was prior to this. Also my periods and ovulation have been back on track now for. Good number of months.

Wanting to start my sway very soon in order to ttc but want to make sure I give myself the best chance without sacrificing my mental sanity or physical health as I have 2 ds’s who depend on a healthy ma

yes it absolutely is possible to sway with low iron/ferritin. Just take the medication as directed by your doctor and sway in other ways. That absolutely fine to do that and I have many, many swayers on iron supplements who still get girls.

Iron is one of many nutrients and is not more important than any other nutrient (and in fact is very likely less important than many other nutrients.)

All foods are allowed on LE Diet within the limits. Red meat is allowed on LE if you need to have it. Just try to stick in the limits 1500-1800 cals, 50-60 g protein, 50-60 g fat every day and you can still have red meat if you need it. You can even bump that up more if you need to. I have many swayers on 1800-2000 or even beyond that, and some people go up to 60-70 g protein too. The important thing is that you were eating slightly less than you were when you got your boys.

yes it absolutely is possible to sway with low iron/ferritin. Just take the medication as directed by your doctor and sway in other ways. That absolutely fine to do that and I have many, many swayers on iron supplements who still get girls.

Iron is one of many nutrients and is not more important than any other nutrient (and in fact is very likely less important than many other nutrients.)

All foods are allowed on LE Diet within the limits. Red meat is allowed on LE if you need to have it. Just try to stick in the limits 1500-1800 cals, 50-60 g protein, 50-60 g fat every day and you can still have red meat if you need it. You can even bump that up more if you need to. I have many swayers on 1800-2000 or even beyond that, and some people go up to 60-70 g protein too. The important thing is that you were eating slightly less than you were when you got your boys.

Thank you atomic that is very reassuring. I’m so scared of starting for fear of becoming a bit crazy again. I thought the iron might be a no no as you say to have less red meat so that’s good to hear. My diet is very low in red meat generally which I think is why my iron runs low. Just want to do everything I can this time 🤞

Trying to do everything you can WILL make you crazy.

Let's try instead to do everything that works for most people, most of the time, and let go of the things that serve no purpose and keep you from conceiving. That is the approach that is now getting us better results than we have ever had...doing only what has worked, and letting go of the stuff that does nothing and prevents us from getting pregnant.