The embarrassing thing about my anemia is that I've apparently always run low on iron and simply never knew it until I stopped the multivitamin. Embarrassing because I know my mom always had to force herself to consume prescribed iron supplements and at least two* of my sisters are also low iron, so it should have been obvious.

*for all I know all seven of us are - I'm the only one who donates blood and regularly have myself tested (and rejected, heh). It's not the kind of thing that comes up in normal conversation.