I’m currently taking 40mg every 4 days of cypionate and it puts me around 500 total testosterone. I went to donate blood a couple weeks ago because my hematocrit tens to run high. I wasn’t able to donate because my finger prick hemoglobin test Was 18.9 and 18.2 is there cutoff. They said to stop eating red meat, leafy greens, stop using cast iron and stop taking vitamin c, and to hydrate more. I did that for 2 weeks along with reducing my dose to 15mg eod and tried again, hemoglobin came back higher at 19.3.
I’m trying to figure out if there is something else going on. I’ve been taking 1mg of melatonin a night for years and in the past month stating taking 3mg. I came across this article but couldn’t find much more. Has anyone had any experience or have any knowledge on the affect melatonin can have on hemoglobin?
“The chronic administration of pineal hormone melatonin (1 mg) in healthy humans leads to a significant increase in the hemoglobin level and erythrocyte number, especially on the background of low values of both indices.”
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
And
“13-week and 26-week study in rats (75 and 150 mg/kg/day) showed increased hemoglobin concentrations and platelet counts (13-week time point), increased liver weights (13-week time point) and minor centrilobular hepatocytic hypertrophy (13 and 26-week time points.”
I do have sleep apnea but use my cpap religiously.
I’m trying to figure out if there is something else going on. I’ve been taking 1mg of melatonin a night for years and in the past month stating taking 3mg. I came across this article but couldn’t find much more. Has anyone had any experience or have any knowledge on the affect melatonin can have on hemoglobin?
“The chronic administration of pineal hormone melatonin (1 mg) in healthy humans leads to a significant increase in the hemoglobin level and erythrocyte number, especially on the background of low values of both indices.”
High-affinity binding of melatonin to hemoglobin - PubMed
Determination of melatonin by radioimmunoassay in plasma samples from hemolyzed blood often yields flawed values. We studied the possibility that hemoglobin can bind melatonin and the iodinated tracer 125I-melatonin. The specific binding of 125I-melatonin to purified bovine hemoglobin was found...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
And
“13-week and 26-week study in rats (75 and 150 mg/kg/day) showed increased hemoglobin concentrations and platelet counts (13-week time point), increased liver weights (13-week time point) and minor centrilobular hepatocytic hypertrophy (13 and 26-week time points.”
I do have sleep apnea but use my cpap religiously.
