Did you fall and break you leg or hip or both? Or is this arthritis

Hmmm.... I would suspect that bones have a certain amount of marrow. Losing a bone wouldn't "up" marrow production in others, I wouldn't think. If the marrow is doing it's job, you shouldn't get anema from this. Eating iron rich foods will help, as will supplements. But, you shouldn't be taking iron supplements past menopause. If you are suffering anemia, your doctor might want to investigate "why". You may need a colonoscopy  or scope to make sure there's no "bleeding" anywhere. If the anemia is bad, they may want to do a marrow biopsy. There ARE drugs to help with this, but generaly the doctor wants to find the cause for the anemia first and I just doubt it would be from the hip replacement.

My hip broke on it's own from a stress fracture femoral break right below the hip joint, but on the femur.  I had 3 surgeries for it because the first 2 the bones werent healing together, so they did a total hip replacement.

Melissa.

BellaBearGirl..... I am not anemic now but very prone to it.  It got real bad out of the blue after the 2nd surgery.  I had 16 rounds of iron infusions to bump up the numbers.  I eat very well, take vitamins, and it's been 2 years since the last iron infusion.  I had just wondererd because I'd read something on bone marrow and it occurred to me maybe everything had been related or was related somehow.  I have no internal bleeding -- I'd know that if I had it.  GI checks me often enough.  No one knows why the anemia was so bad, but it never came back, I had done nothing differently eating-wise.  Just the surgeries were happening.  Now that I think about it though, I could have become anemic if  l lost too much blood during the first surgeries and just couldn't get back on track.  The 3rd surgery I was given A LOT of blood back (3 bags of it) to make up for the loss.  That may have stablized the numbers.

Melissa.

Melissa -- Did you see Dr. Mike talking about green tea. People prone to anemia should NOT drink it. It exacerbates the anemia. If you don't have anemia, green tea won't cause it. But for those with it -- or prone to it--you should stay away from green tea. Not sure if the doctors even know what the link is. It sounds like your body has faced lots of trauma. This could just be the new "normal" for you. I'd Google it and see what you can find. Also Wikipedia might be a good source of info. Good luck to you. My mom's red blood count has been declining each year for the last 10 years. The doc finally decided to mention it; maybe it just dropped below normal. Anyway, she just had a marrow biopsy and there's something going on. No cancer or leukemia, thank goodness. So, they're monitoring it. Hope you get to the bottom of things. I'm thinking of you!

I cant drink green tea....I am allergic to it.  Thanks for answering the blog :)

Melissa.