High RBC

[Hectooor]

Hi All,

I’ve had issues with my CBC, attached the pic below from quest. Before TRT I was at 5.8 (the high end) now on 180 mg a week and my test levels around 980.
Does it sound like another underlying issue? When I donate it goes up

 

[Systemlord]

now on 180 mg a week and my test levels around 980.

You may need to lower your dosage, CBC is out of whack. I've seen this before in men who are overdosed on TRT.

If these are trough levels, end of week lab draws, right before your next injection, your Total T levels could be 1500> at peak.

When in relation to your injections are labs being drawn?

When I donate it goes up

The body will increase RBC when dehydrated or when the body detects low oxygen in the blood.

If you continue upon this course, without decreasing your dosage, I see iron deficiency in your not so distant future and any iron supplement may make managing hematocrit and hemoglobin challenging.

 

[Systemlord]

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[Hectooor]

You may need to lower your dosage, CBC is out of whack. I've seen this before in men who are overdosed on TRT.

If these are trough levels, end of week lab draws, right before your next injection, your Total T levels could be 1500> at peak.

When in relation to your injections are labs being drawn?

The body will increase RBC when dehydrated or when the body detects low oxygen in the blood.

If you continue upon this course, without decreasing your dosage, I see iron deficiency in your not so distant future and any iron supplement may make managing hematocrit and hemoglobin challenging.

I did bloodwork the day before injection, do injections twice a week of 90 mg each, lowered it today to 80 each, hoping to get back to normal. My Ferritin levels were in the single digits 6 months ago. Then I started taking iron pill but all it did was maybe raise my RBC but I didn’t do iron testing this time.

 

[t_spacemonkey]

I personally would not bother with those levels yet.
also doubtful that lowering it to 160 will do anything.
you could try to spread the injection frequency. also reading that baby aspirin can lower it (started to test).
i am at 160/180/week too, doing every other day.
what is your SHBG?

 

[Hectooor]

I personally would not bother with those levels yet.
also doubtful that lowering it to 160 will do anything.
you could try to spread the injection frequency. also reading that baby aspirin can lower it (started to test).
i am at 160/180/week too, doing every other day.
what is your SHBG?

I tried the 3 times a week but was told that works with shorter esters, my SHBG is 19 (10-50 range)
I was told baby aspirin too but is that safe forever?

 

[Systemlord]

I did bloodwork the day before injection, do injections twice a week of 90 mg each, lowered it today to 80 each, hoping to get back to normal. My Ferritin levels were in the single digits 6 months ago. Then I started taking iron pill but all it did was maybe raise my RBC but I didn’t do iron testing this time.

You can have hematocrit at <55% and still be okay. The guidelines for erythrocytosis on TRT are hematocrit <55%, which strangely is based off the polycythemia vera group (cancer of the bone marrow), which showed reductions in clotting factors <55%.

A slight elevation hematocrit and hemoglobin may be more healthy.

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[FDV70]

I did bloodwork the day before injection, do injections twice a week of 90 mg each, lowered it today to 80 each, hoping to get back to normal. My Ferritin levels were in the single digits 6 months ago. Then I started taking iron pill but all it did was maybe raise my RBC but I didn’t do iron testing this time.

Do the ferritin recovery protocol.

Raising ferritin FAST (a how-to, not a question)

Hi all, I started TRT in 2001 and have been giving blood over the years and have always had issues with recovering my ferritin. Long story short, I got tired of waiting for others to do the research, so I did it myself, created a protocol, hired a hematologist in May 2021 who thought it could...

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[FDV70]

I did bloodwork the day before injection, do injections twice a week of 90 mg each, lowered it today to 80 each, hoping to get back to normal. My Ferritin levels were in the single digits 6 months ago. Then I started taking iron pill but all it did was maybe raise my RBC but I didn’t do iron testing this time.

Do the ferritin recovery protocol.

Raising ferritin FAST (a how-to, not a question)

Hi all, I started TRT in 2001 and have been giving blood over the years and have always had issues with recovering my ferritin. Long story short, I got tired of waiting for others to do the research, so I did it myself, created a protocol, hired a hematologist in May 2021 who thought it could...

www.excelmale.com

 

[GreenMachineX]

I tried the 3 times a week but was told that works with shorter esters, my SHBG is 19 (10-50 range)
I was told baby aspirin too but is that safe forever?

I've had similar bloodwork before where the MCV was on the low end, and when I addressed my b12 and donate deficiencies, it caused the HGB and HCT to fly...once all the way up to 58 HCT. Too high for comfort. It's happened several times.