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See post #32:

See last highlighted portion.  Have your physician assess your inflammation status, plasma viscosity, heart history, PAH status, etc. and work together to determine how much you can tolerate?

General rule of thumb:

Hct(max) (as you refer to it) for old dude with reduced vasodilation capacity is lower than for young stud without the wear and tear.  You'll get a variety of opinions.  Hope this gives some food for thought.  An old man doping his blood to give the Hct of a tour-de-france cylist ain't my idea of of appropriate treatment.  You have to look at what's the rate limiting step in each person.  A cyclist's heart may be able to take the additional beating; a heart patient?

My intention here is to counter the blanket statement that TRT-induced erythrocytosis is harmless.  That is a dangerous statement [my opinion].  But it's your heart.