why can’t I keep mine down? I quit injecting for a month and felt like crap (per say the Doc).
That brought me back down from 19.8 to 17.3 then I gave blood. I went back to give blood eight weeks later and it was back up to 19.7??? WTF. I have stuck with the 100 mg a week
One guy has a nurse for a wife and he dumps blood at home.
[quote]uwacop wrote:
why can’t I keep mine down? I quit injecting for a month and felt like crap (per say the Doc).
That brought me back down from 19.8 to 17.3 then I gave blood. I went back to give blood eight weeks later and it was back up to 19.7??? WTF. I have stuck with the 100 mg a week[/quote]
Hey, brother, I hear you. I have the same damn issue. Even had a biopsy to see if I had polycythemia, a disease where bone marrow makes too much blood.
Make sure you have NO iron in your vitamin mix. Cut way down on beef.
And therapeutic phlebotomy is a must. The guy I go to drains me and then puts in a pint of a vitamin concotion. Didn’t notice anything from that but it probably did some good. I do that every 2 months.
Same problem here. Fortunately I have 3 separate blood banks in my area and they don’t coordinate their donation lists. I wind up having to donate every 4 weeks to keep me down in the 16-17 range.
I need to figure something out because I don’t want the Doc to take me off again. The first two weeks wasn’t that bad but the last two weeks was the worst I have ever felt in my life.