This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hlT.2ACEB/2866.2.2 Message Board Post: The symptoms of Thalassemia minor are very much like iron-poor blood, the type of anemia that most people seem to have. The problem is that taking iron pills, shots, etc., does nothing. I was told to throw away my iron pills because no amount of iron I could take would ever make a difference. I threw them away and nothing seems different! When I was pregnant (before the diagnosis) my doctor just thought I had iron-poor blood and gave me iron pills ( four a day) and iron shots and B-12 shots for about 6 six in the middle of the pregnancies...but nothing helped. I feel fine, but I get tired easily. I just run on adrenalin a lot! Later, June