Anyone had intravenous iron infusions?

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I'm struggling with the side effects of iron supplements and my iron levels are still low (9.6).
My GP wants to refer me for intravenous infusions.
I'm a bit apprehensive as I've read online you can get some horrible side effects and I'm worried that, unlike tablets, which I can stop if I get side effects, I obviously can't do this with the infusions.
Has anyone has this and how was it?

The first one I had was after a badly managed large PPH - my haemoglobin was 6.8 before the estimated 1.5l blood loss. I was pretty much non functional - any activity made me breathless & dizzy. I couldn't manage more than a couple of steps & looked like a walking corpse (seriously looking back on photos now is shocking - I was too ill at the time to realise how ill I was).

The other ones were prophylactic so I had them if my Hb went down to 10.5 in pregnancy - I've had a lot of bleeding pist delivery in all 4 pregnancies but wanted to reduce the risk going in anaemia & of needing a transfusion.

Excuse typos I'm on a rickety train!

Can you get Sytron without a prescription?

laniakea I know that state of anemia well. I had a mismanaged bleed (not pph though minor op) on already low iron stores.
I was breathless, dizzy, tachycardic and looked like the walking dead in photos, I also didn't realise how ill I was even after my Gp ordered me straight to hospital for a transfusion the day he got blood results back, I apparently had less than 4 pints of blood in my body. He was shocked I was still alive, let alone functioning.

I have no idea why my iron levels have dropped so low again though.

I dont think so niki