So, You Have Haemochromatosis. What Happens Next?

A diagnosis can change the way you look at yourself.

One day you are getting on with life, perhaps feeling a little more tired or achy than usual. The next, someone tells you that you may have a condition with an unfamiliar name, involving a metal you have always been encouraged to get enough of.

It is not surprising if your first reaction is, 'What on earth does that mean for me?'

I remember that feeling. In the introduction to this book, I’ve shared how my wife noticed that I was not quite myself, long before I was ready to admit it.

I had explanations for everything: work, travel, too little sleep, the wrong food grabbed between meetings. My GP thought something more was going on. It took an anxious wait, a rather difficult specialist appointment and my insistence on the promised genetic test before the answer became clear. I had inherited two copies of a particular variant in the HFE gene, known as C282Y, and I had developed iron overload.

At the time, I wanted answers to three questions. Was I going to be all right? Could anything be done? And why had nobody told me about this before?

Perhaps those are your questions too. Or perhaps you feel completely well and are wondering why a routine blood test or a family member's diagnosis has set all this in motion.

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