I've also been anemic and maybe still am I'm taking ferrous sulphate too, was on one each day for best part of a year, but bloods still low 17 so I am now prescribed 2 tabs a day together with orange juice to help absorb it I also find spinach good used as salad in a sandwich.
I didn't think 17 as a iron level was low, but was told it is by another doctor I saw, it's a real pain trying to get everything in without missing one, and not mixing it with tea coffee breakfast etc.
Not sure why I'm anemic, but have recently been tod I have Gallstones.