Hey Coastwatcher
Thank you for shedding light on that for me!
Certainly don't mean to appear feeling sorry for myself, like the majority I just want to feel better. Know what I mean?
I do understand my doctors concern, but as the saying goes there's nobody who know's you better than yourself. I will willingly accept the TRT protocol if it's offered including the phlebotomy. However if it's just a lower dose affair I feel personally better off looking elsewhere kind of thing. Certainly that's kind of where it felt like it was going anyway (awaiting outcome). That's my only concern really.
I do train like a beast so ideally sleeping is an issue which needs to be fixed too. As I said though I am responding well to tryptophan and zma. I know there's a lot of mixed opinion on zma but for overall health I think it's worth while for a start.
Interestingly I've just found some old blood work results pre-TRT (these ones I had done privately a year before) and even then without any TRT my RBC was high 178 g/L. So it has peaked and dipped at various times. I'm pretty sure if I had an underlying problem causing polycythemia it would remain increased? Like I mentioned recent one has come down to 158.
Not sure how Sleep Apnea impacts RBC, does it create peaks and dips then?
