Once you have been diagnosed with Hemochromatosis, by your doctor, your doctor will set up a schedule for therapeutic blood withdrawals which your insurance should pay for. During this period, your transferrin saturation rate will be monitored and once it reaches 50% you can have you doctor contact your local blood bank so you can donate blood every 8 weeks. By donating whole blood every 8 weeks, this should keep your transferring saturation rate right around 50%.
If you do not get rid of the excess iron from your body and keep the level of iron down where it belongs, you can damage vital organs in your body and suffer from Type 2 Diabetes, Congestive Heart Failure, Liver and Kidney damage along with other problems.