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What Is The Recovery Time For Anemia?

Hi, I once had a hemoglobin number of 5.6 after surgery and they gave me 10 units of blood and the number went up to about 8.5. Then they released me from the hospital. I was carted away in an ambulance, could not walk, and spent the next three weeks in some kind of nursing home facility where i continued to recover. Did they release me from the hospital too soon?
Mon, 8 Jan 2018
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Your Hemoglobin levels seem to be low but that can have a number of causes. From the history that you have given, it is not quite clear if your hemoglobin levels were decreased prior to surgery or after surgery. Also, only low hemoglobin levels by themselves are not always the criteria for inpatient therapy and a hemoglobin of 8.5 is quite compatible with discharge. But then again, we are not quite conversant with what condition you have been suffering from and what surgery was done. So it will be naive to comment whether you were discharged too soon.
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What Is The Recovery Time For Anemia?

Your Hemoglobin levels seem to be low but that can have a number of causes. From the history that you have given, it is not quite clear if your hemoglobin levels were decreased prior to surgery or after surgery. Also, only low hemoglobin levels by themselves are not always the criteria for inpatient therapy and a hemoglobin of 8.5 is quite compatible with discharge. But then again, we are not quite conversant with what condition you have been suffering from and what surgery was done. So it will be naive to comment whether you were discharged too soon.