Getting my iron levels up - does the patch work?

My iron is low and I'd like to bring the levels up.  

Chewable multis with iron taste terrible to me, and it's important that I take my chewable every day, so I went the route of the non-iron version so I'll actually take it.

The Iron Plus patch doesn't seem to have any reviews yet.

Before I cave on Iron chewables: has anyone actually used the Iron Plus patch and had their iron levels go up to normal?   http://www.obesityhelp.com/profiles/product/iron-plus-topica l-patch-30-day-supply/

Hi! I don't have an answer, but just wanted to suggest you post this on one of the main boards. This one doesn't get much traffic! 

One of the other members had a ferritin of 6, which is dangerously low. She was taking a few hundred mg of elemental iron every day for a year, and the ferritin didn't budge. After three months on the patch multi, and an extra iron patch, her ferritin is already up to 28.

the patches work for some people and don't work for others. The only way to know if they work on you - is to try it. 

4 months ago I switched from taking my capsule vitamins and last Sunday morning I ended up in the local ER and a subsequent 3 full day hospital visit! No idea if it's because my skin did not absorb the patches from PatchMD or if the patches just don't work for us but all of my levels had dropped and my B1 was so low that I was hallucinating with severe memory loss. So if you do try the patches please be very careful...and I tried the Iron Plus patches as well with bad results...my levels dropped. Best wishes for a good outcome with either choice. Cheers, Tee