Thank you for your video. I just received results and am homozygous (H63D). Does this mean I have Hemochromatosis?

Definitely more research but not just on C282Y’s but Compounds too. Just because my iron levels are not in the high hundreds I feel my health conditions are dismissed. Ok, so I don’t have iron in high hundreds but how does the GH compound affect my heart and diabetes diagnosis??

So I have GH Heterozygous (Compound) have Atrial Fibrillation and Type 2 Diabetes apparently not loading high iron, how do I find out WHAT is causing these conditions as I’m told not related to GH!

Genetic Haemochromatosis causes iron overload,

Almost all Breakfast cereals in Australia are high in added iron. Fed to millions of children every day without any regard to the high northern European ancestry of Australia.

You only need one gene to be at risk.

Very interesting, I have a friend that has been diagnosed with syncope, however has spent so much money trying to understand what is causing this without success. More recently after visiting a wholistic GP he has been diagnosed with haemochromatosis. Is it possible this syncope could be caused by build up of iron in the heart, and if so what should he be asking his specialist.

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I have high iron. Infrared sauna every night. If I go for more then a week without the sauna I feel sore in the joints.

I have Compound variant C282y & H63D. I have Supra ventricular tachycardia which is now Peripheral Atrial Fibrillation, then developed T2 diabetes in 2021. My fathers family have a serious history of strokes, mothers family aortic aneurysms. I’m 66 and have been fighting for 2 yrs to get a genetic test even though both brother and sister had been diagnosed. Today saw a dr who has said none of those health issues are connected to GH!! Fighting ignorance. All that was carried out were blood tests and was told highest score was 300 ferritin, I said that was for men. I was hoping for 1 -2 venesections to see if they would improve my PAF & T2D🤷🏼‍♀️ UK

Can iron overload cause gastritis? I have both……the saturation is still a little high and ferritin is lower. My gastritis makes my stomach burn

I have high ferritin. One year ago, I donated blood at Canadian Blood Service, and they said that I could not donate anymore because, in the past, I was infected by hepatitis B. Unfortunately, my ferritin is high again. What have I to do? Do you know a clinic that can help me? Please send me an email.

It seriously disappoints me that Australian videos utterly fail to address HH symptoms. It's like there are none, or if you have them you shouldn't worry about them. I've been experiencing progressively worse symptoms since I was a 35 year old and have zero treatment or help with any of them the whole time, including a current aortic aneurysm. Nor do Australians talk about alternative treatments to venasections, a procedure which has no provable effect.

Can this happen with half gene of hemochromatosis? My ferritin level is 372 and I have extreme inflammation and joint pain.

If your gay and have a normal sex like you can’t donate blood . #discrimination

Where in Australia do you practice doctor? You sound very thorough and caring. Would love a GP like yourself 😊

Significant mineral balancing in the body? Copper balancing?

Wonder if oxalate deposition in joints, maybe binding to the iron there, could be a factor ?

I would like to thank you for your video and correspondence to lead me to Dr Malcolm Handle at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, I had almost given up on everything but I now have some relief, more importantly someone who has some idea with what is going on with HH. I am indebted to you.

My recent blood test showed a high level of Iron in my blood. My doctor put me on Folic Acid to lower my Iron levels. Is that common?

I wonder when do we start giving blood? My ferritin is up to 700. I am à 62 years old woman. Also diagnosed with sjogrens and rhumatoïd arthritis. Thank you very much for this interesting video.

I have been supplementing N-Acetyl Cysteine for a year and my ferritin halved. Please share any info on this.

Be aware that the aging water system has old iron pipes in the ground. It the fire hydrant is old, the water pipe is at least that old. .

My step dad developed iron overload as he aged. For other reasons he went on a keto diet for four months, lost 40 pounds, then continued to eat healthy. His iron problem went away.

At present…the unknown reasons for long haul Covid are identical. Where do we go from here!

Hi How can I get in touch with Dr Martin. Please forward me an email

I have it for years. But I had hepatitis C so it was a big hassle. Now I have been cured of hep C so I will go to Red Cross. But I started to ignore the high blood count, and it was such a hassle in the states, the health system etc. but tonite I got a big scare. Bleeding excessivethru my leg , a small cut. I had to put pressure on it to stop it a lot of blood streaming out. No one is talking about bleeding. That is hematomchrissis right?

I appreciate all good , informative video's.. Thank you

This video was very helpful. Thank you!

Very good explanation and plan speaking thanks👍

Very interesting,well said 👍👍

Im researching this, due to a family member being diagnosed with this 5 years ago. There’s good info on the British Skin Foundation and a blog linked to skin and Hemochromatosis dealing with skin/pain conditions. Also Hemochromatosis help online

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Thanks so much for your video. So many doctors are not aware of this problem with hereditary hemochromatosis. It is a very painful condition.

What about the heart. Does the iron levels drop. Or, does the iron and damage get pulled from the heart? And, what organ gets effected first? I have hemochromatosis and my body feels badly damaged. Any answers would be great. Thanks.

My daughter in law has to much iron in her blood she wanted to donate some blood at the Red Cross ,they did not take her blood .What now? Does she have to die she is only 27

I started with arthritis in my knee and hips and hands, now 3 years on I seem to have it in every joint from my jaw down to my feet, I am only 53 and was only diagnosed with HH 3 years ago. Sadly my doctor had never heard of it and has no interest in learning, where can I go to find treatment for my bones, as he is just saying it's probably osteoarthritis, I did have x-rays done of knee and hip and that's where he drew he diagnosis from, but when I returned with other boney issues he just put me on a waiting list for rheumatology, this list is at least 4 years long! I want answers now and treatment now!

I was diagnosed with Hereditary Hemochromatosis based on my iron panels in September 2021 at 57 years old I didn’t believe it. A genetic disorder just presenting itself this late in life.. no way! I paid for a genetic test to confirm. I couldn’t believe it was true. I told my 4 siblings and my daughter. So far... one sister has it but is asymptotic... one sister only has one gene... the other two haven’t been tested. My only child had the genetic test done and she has the exact same thing. Which means my husband is a carrier as well since I can only give her one defective gene... not two. Unfortunately my ferritin levels are very high and just finished my 4th therapeutic phlebotomy treatment.... I am just grateful that the rest of my family will always be okay because their doctors will now always be on the lookout if their iron levels and ferritin levels and iron saturation levels. start to go up. They will never have to go through what I am going through.....

As someone who has a very minor form of this. Single h63d, unknown s65c, but something was up because I had a 60% saturation and symptoms even with normal ferritin. In my case donating blood a couple of times a year has been wonderful for the brain fog, the metallic taste I would get in my mouth sometimes. The fatigue. I could only imagine how bad this would be for someone who had a pair of c282y. Wish I would have known how easy this was to treat when I was younger and began developing symptoms in my 30s.

Are there any compensatory mechanisms in hemochromatosis the body may have?

I agree

Great!

You correctly say it's a genetic condition but in discussing the diagnosis there is no mention of a DNA test. There is a paper from Exeter University that states only 10% of women and 20% of men with the mutations get clinical symptoms but this means this percentage have severe liver damage and/or heart disease when diagnosed, so it's not really a good idea to wait for clinical presentation. A better diagnosis is at biological penetrance when blood panel measurements indicate iron overload and this occurs for 80% of people with homozygous C282Y. It's perhaps the clinical penetrance which puts you off DNA tests but I think clinical penetrance is irrelevant if diagnosis can be done a biological penetrance (ie years earlier). In my case I discovered I had Hemochromatosis because of only a commercial DNA test (Ancestry) and it was then confirmed by my doctors with iron panel and MRI Ferriscan. I know its not the recommendation anywhere yet (for non family members) but I believe DNA tests should actually come first for everyone especially as millions of people are doing Family Tree type DNA tests anyway - so there is no incremental cost involved for something that could stop someone die-ing needlessly early.

Interesting thanks for your help

Very interesting Thank you I have hh

For someone with a needle phobia like me, saying things like 'cutting into a vein' and 'big juicy veins' is the last thing they want to hear!

I was admitted to australian hospital with severe tachycardia leading to seizures, they wouldn't consider my iron overload history, don't even think it was written down. GP also knows little. It's extremely under diagnosed, most are still stuck in the idea that most people need more iron (yet iron is being linked to so many bad things now).