TRT and Blood Donations

Pharma / TRT Testosterone Replacement
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I know this topic would have been discussed to death, but mainly for people wanting to reduce hemoglobin & hematocrit by doing donations

My question is for Testosterone levels, does doing a donation affect T levels?

I did a donation a couple weeks back, done a blood test and T levels came back about 40% higher than I was getting before, I haven’t changed my injection cycles and I’ve gone from having 17nmol/L to around 24nmol/:L (range is 9-30)

This could be something else, but thought I’d check if donations can have any impact on blood T levels are the numbers accurate

The donation I did was a standard size donation, it wasn’t double red cell or anything special

I did find an article online that said if men have too much iron stored in the body, then a blood donation which reduced iron levels could make the body also produce more Test - however on my blood tests my iron levels look normal although this is the first donation I’ve done in 10 years

Thanks

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Were these blood draws done on the same day and at the same time of day? If not the difference in results is likely due to differences in lab timing.

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Sorry, I should have clarified - the blood donation was 3 weeks ago, the bloodtest was 2 days ago.

One other thing I forgot to mention, I did this bloodtest at 8am, normally my blood tests are done at 9:00am - can 1 hour make such a big difference in test results?

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You are producing zero T.

See where T levels go from there.

Injection frequency and lab timing can have huge effects and we have no details.

Many guys here have problems with RBC and HTC and I ask that they avoid dehydration at all times, including labs and to avoid iron fortified: vitamins, flour, bread, rice, pasta and cereals. These problems are also T dose and T peak/spike dependent. Frequent subq T injections are helpful and some need to reduce T dose. Many doctors simply prescribe to much.