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david · Joined: 31 Oct 2003

I'm on a 90 day visa that expires the 17th. Will I be able to get a visa extension at immigration? Can I travel to Fukuoka and return to Busan on a tourist visa without any snags? ( Please note how a person can evade or counter the snags as I need the job. )

Anemia: My health check turned up anemia and the hospital wishes to conduct further testing. Has anybody out there had an experience with anemia. How will it be treated? Will they use it as grounds to deny an E2 visa?

Thank you in advance for your replies!

bliss · Joined: 24 Sep 2007 Location: Gyeonggi

What's your diet like?

Perhaps you are a vegetarian and you don't eat enough iron-rich foods like red meat. A healthy, balanced diet should ensure that you don't get anemia.

Anyway, I think you should certainly start taking iron supplement pills every day to increase your iron levels in time for your next hospital tests.

D.D. · Joined: 29 May 2008

Here are the kinds of anemia:

http://www.ehealthmd.com/library/anemia/ANM_kinds.html

WHat kind do you have? If you are a vego make sure that you are taking spirulina as it is high in B-vitamins and some iron.

Kikomom · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:43 am Post subject:

Be very careful with the iron pills, that stuff'll bind you up like there's no tomorrow.* And when you do go, it'll be like pooping little rabbit turds. So pay close attention to your diet. If you are vego, it shouldn't be a problem--plenty of roughage there. Otherwise the kimchee should do the trick. Wink

*This goes for pregnant women taking iron and pre-natal vitamins too.

Bramble · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes

Please, please don't take medical or nutritional advice on a Web site. Especially this one. Rolling Eyes

valkerie · Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Location: Busan

Iron works as a laxative for me!

I am always anaemic, it has been pointed out but not been a problem. So unless u have a severely low number (which just needs special meds) or another type of anaemia (as someone linked to).... can you get more info?

As for the other point, if you are just looking for work then you shpuld be able to exit and comne back on another tourist visa. BUT the health check sounds like you have a job, in which case ...well you know how that works, surely!