AT-HOME IV IRON INFUSION IN FORT COLLINS

Why give a whole morning to an infusion suite when the infusion can come to you? A licensed RN arrives at your door in Fort Collins, Old Town, the CSU area, the east-side neighborhoods out past Timberline, with physician-supervised Venofer® in hand. You settle in at home, the appointment takes 60 to 90 minutes start to finish, and next-day slots are often open.

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Iron Therapy Colorado

$400.00

Book your at-home Venofer® treatment · Same-week appointments available

Built for Fort Collins Women

You've always been the active one, rides toward Horsetooth, miles along the Poudre, a full week that never used to faze you. Then the fatigue creeps in and doesn't leave. You're spent by early afternoon, your hair's collecting in the drain, your head won't clear. You mention it, a doctor scans your panel, says your iron's "on the low side," and suggests a supplement. A month on, you're no better.

It gets waved through because ferritin, your iron reserve, can drop into the 15 to 30 ng/mL gray zone while the rest of your bloodwork looks ordinary, and half the time it isn't even measured. Up here, where thin air already pushes your blood harder, a low reserve hits harder than the same number would at sea level. The women who come to us in Fort Collins are usually a few months postpartum or have lost iron over years of heavy periods.

Local OBs are good at spotting the number. Almost none can put an IV in your arm during the appointment and be done. Swallow iron for months and hope your stomach cooperates, which often it doesn't. Or give up half a day to an infusion suite, the drive, the parking, the front desk, the waiting room, usually with a baby on your hip.

It gets waved through because ferritin, your iron reserve, can drop into the 15 to 30 ng/mL gray zone while the rest of your bloodwork looks ordinary, and half the time it isn't even measured. Up here, where thin air already pushes your blood harder, a low reserve hits harder than the same number would at sea level. The women who come to us in Fort Collins are usually a few months postpartum or have lost iron over years of heavy periods.

Built for Fort Collins Women

YOUR AT-HOME IRON INFUSION, STEP BY STEP

01
Pre-Visit Consult & Labs (24–72 hours prior)
First, we review your recent CBC and ferritin, drawn within the last 90 days. Don't have current numbers? We'll place an order so it doesn't delay your booking.
Pre-Visit Consult & Labs (24–72 hours prior)
02
Confirmed Booking
Tell us the 90-minute window that suits you. If you're booked in before 11:00 AM, an afternoon visit that same day is often doable around Fort Collins; otherwise, the next opening is typically a day out.
Confirmed Booking
03
RN Arrival
Your nurse comes fully stocked with the Venofer®, a sealed IV kit, monitoring gear, everything a sterile setup needs. Whether it's an Old Town bungalow or a rental near campus, it lands the same. You don't lift a finger to prepare.
RN Arrival
04
Clinical Setup (10 minutes)
Vitals first, then an allergy check and a baseline reading, and she talks you through what's coming so the next hour holds no surprises.
Clinical Setup (10 minutes)
05
The Infusion (30–60 minutes)
The iron drips in slowly with your nurse watching the whole time. You do whatever you'd normally be doing, answering email, lying back, feeding the baby, scrolling. Most women say it barely registers.
The Infusion (30–60 minutes)
06
Post-Infusion Watch (15 minutes)
One final vitals check, a push to drink water, and a brief pause so she can be sure there's no late reaction before she goes.
Post-Infusion Watch (15 minutes)
07
Clean Up & Plan
She hauls out every scrap of clinical waste, and you're left holding a written plan, your ferritin recheck date, and what sensible follow-up looks like.
Clean Up & Plan

ABOUT VENOFER® AND HOW WE KEEP YOU SAFE

® and How We Keep You Safe

Venofer® (Iron Therapy IV) is iron sucrose, a prescription iron built to be infused rather than swallowed. Maternity and infusion teams at UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital reach for it, and it's used nationwide. The point of the IV route is that your whole dose lands in your blood at once, no gut deciding to absorb a sliver of a tablet, no cramping to show for it.

  • Active infection or fever at time of visit = immediate rescheduling
  • Known iron overload conditions (hemochromatosis) = not a candidate
  • Certain pregnancy stages are screened out for safety
  • Real-time physician backup available during every home visit
  • RNs trained in adverse-reaction protocols and carry emergency supplies
ABOUT VENOFER® AND HOW WE KEEP YOU SAFE

At-Home vs Oral Pills vs Hospital Infusion Suite

Oral Iron Pills Hospital Infusion Suite Drip Gym At-Home
Best For Mild deficiency, long-term maintenance Acute clinical emergencies Rapid recovery & busy schedules
What to Expect GI upset, constipation, slow results Waiting rooms, sterile hospital vibes Boutique care on your own sofa
Logistics Daily adherence required Commute, parking, check-in delays We come to you. Zero travel.
Timeline 3–6 months to see change 2–4 weeks scheduling wait Results in days, next-day booking
Best For
Oral Iron Pills
Mild deficiency, long-term maintenance
Hospital Infusion Suite
Acute clinical emergencies
Drip Gym At-Home
Rapid recovery & busy schedules
What to Expect
Oral Iron Pills
GI upset, constipation, slow results
Hospital Infusion Suite
Waiting rooms, sterile hospital vibes
Drip Gym At-Home
Boutique care on your own sofa
Logistics
Oral Iron Pills
Daily adherence required
Hospital Infusion Suite
Commute, parking, check-in delays
Drip Gym At-Home
We come to you. Zero travel.
Timeline
Oral Iron Pills
3–6 months to see change
Hospital Infusion Suite
2–4 weeks scheduling wait
Drip Gym At-Home
Results in days, next-day booking

Pricing and What's Included

What's Included
  • Prescribed Venofer® (iron sucrose) medication
  • Licensed RN visit to your home
  • IV supplies and safety monitoring equipment
  • Pre-visit lab review by a supervising physician
  • Post-infusion follow-up and recheck guidance

It's $400 per visit, and the per-session cost comes down if you take the buy-5-get-1-free package. That includes the Venofer®, the nurse's visit, the supplies, your lab review by a physician, and the follow-up. HSA and FSA cards are welcome. Mobile IV iron generally isn't reimbursed through insurance plans unless you carry a documented anemia diagnosis that meets the plan's threshold.

Single At-Home Iron Infusion

$400

HSA/FSA eligible

Buy 5 Infusions, Get 1 Free

$2,000

HSA/FSA eligible

Real Stories From Fort Collins

★★★★★

Kept bonking on rides out to Horsetooth I've done for years.
Same loop, suddenly cooked halfway. It was my iron. Two weeks post

-infusion my legs came back.
★★★★★

Grad school, a part

-time job, and no bandwidth for a clinic.
★★★★★

Donating plasma is how I learned my iron was low.
They turned me away for low hemoglobin. My doctor didn't dig further, DripGym did, and treated it right at my kitchen table. Felt it within a week.

-Marta, Rigden Farm
★★★★★

New baby, and driving anywhere felt like a lot.
My ferritin was in the teens after Poudre Valley and the pills upset my stomach. The RN came to us, set up while the baby slept, and I finally stopped crashing every afternoon.

-Dani, Fort Collins

Questions Fort Collins Patients Ask

It's $400 per visit, and the per-session cost comes down if you take the buy-5-get-1-free package. That includes the Venofer®, the nurse's visit, the supplies, your lab review by a physician, and the follow-up. HSA and FSA cards are welcome. Mobile IV iron generally isn't reimbursed through insurance plans unless you carry a documented anemia diagnosis that meets the plan's threshold.

Venofer® is a prescription iron, iron sucrose, that's dripped into a vein instead of taken as a pill. Delivered that way, the full dose reaches your bloodstream without your digestive system skimming most of it off, and without the nausea and constipation tablets are famous for.

Most people sail through it. When side effects do happen, they're usually minor and brief: a metallic taste mid-drip, a light headache, a touch of nausea now and then. The serious stuff is genuinely uncommon, and that's the whole reason a nurse sits with you the entire time and keeps emergency supplies close.

Broadly, a woman whose ferritin has tested low, usually below 30 ng/mL, and who's carrying the symptoms (worn out, foggy, hair thinning). It makes particular sense if tablets have upset your stomach or left your numbers flat. Bring current CBC and ferritin results, and know that a supervising physician signs off on every case first.

Yes. A lot of those we treat are new moms, but iron deficiency runs high in younger women too, particularly with heavy cycles or a plant-heavy diet. If recent labs show low ferritin and our physician agrees, students, grad students, and university staff around Fort Collins are all welcome to book.

Yes. A lot of our Fort Collins patients are just outside the city line in unincorporated Larimer County. As long as you're within a reasonable drive of town, it's worth asking when you call rather than assuming you're out of range.

Usually, yes. If there's a private room where the nurse can set up and keep an eye on you during the visit, we can come to a workplace or campus office anywhere in our Fort Collins service area instead of your home.

Yes. We work around whatever hours you've got, early mornings before chores, a break between seasons, or a rare slow afternoon. If you're out past the edge of town in the ag areas around Fort Collins and aren't sure you're in range, just ask when you call.