I want to say I hope you are feeling a little bit better each and every day. It does take a little time for the infusions to help. My numbers were similar to yours (hemo 8.8, ferritin 4) before my infusions I started about a month ago. After my first two infusions my hemo was an 11.2 and my ferritin was a 52. So I am sure you will see good improvement as well! The first few times I went I was asked by different nurses "were you a gastro patient?" (no, but apparently this is common with you guys!)
I am sorry to hear you had such bad symptoms. Are you sure the bladder and vaginal pains were caused by the anemia? I have not heard of those as anemia symptoms before.