I was diagnosed as iron deficient about a year ago and have been on supplementation on and off since (mainly on). I recently took another blood test in a non fasting state to see what my blood work looked like and while i was pleased to see my ferritin levels finally going up, my iron levels and transferrin saturation seemed quite low. Also my haemoglobin and RBC count seem much lower. I thought these figures should be higher while i am taking iron supplementation.
Can anybody help and explain to me why most of my values are lower when i would expect them to be higher due to supplementation. (Also, during my last blood test i was still taking supps, so i don't know if this affected the values)
Before starting iron supplementation almost a year ago.