I never shared my Hemoglobin and Hematocrit pre TRT. I updated my post to show labs so you are looking at same ones. My levels are normally in range for those when I’m off TRT so it’s definitely the cause. I had this issue when I was on TRT the last time when my idiot previous doc took me off TRT because of it instead or donating blood. High Hematocrit means your blood is thicker and you are more at risk for a stroke I thought.
That’s if rbc hemo and hct are super high. 54% is getting border line. YouTube trt hematocrit and dr Rouzier or Nichols and watch those videos .
If you don’t have any sides this is not high for your body.
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How do you feel on this?
Some have lower HCT injecting smaller more frequent dosing.
Your hct isn’t moving I would stay at this dose if you feel great. Check bp and compare to before if possible. That’s a good indicator of body to. Make sure arms held up at heart level during test if doing at home
@enackers I never shared my pre TRT Labs. The post was edited to include my post trt 6 Week Labs.
@enackers My energy still isn’t good. It needs to improve but I will give this dose more time to be sure before making any rash changes.
@systemlord you mean more frequent than I am currently on? You are eod 20mg correct?
When I see him I will ask for my thyroid panel also.
I can’t help but respond. You numbers are terrible and there is no wonder you don’t feel better. Find a new doctor. Your free T is actually 10.1 ng/ dL (101 pg/ml) as they purposely change units of measure to pg/ ml in order for your number to look higher than it is. I think it is a effort to restrict the use of testosterone. Your total testosterone is reported in ng/ dL but your free in pg/ml. If your doctor would get your free T in the neighborhood of 30ng/dL you would most likely notice a difference. Once that occurs then look at your thyroid if you are still symptomatic. You can worry about your H/H all you want but it is a non harmful physiologic erythrocytosis not polycythemia Vera. Mine runs 54.7 and I don’t worry a nanosecond
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This is my doc talking here. Listen to him @LowTSucks
I was surprised when I thought you said you felt good.
Don’t be scared to take a proper dose. Your body will love you for it.
Find a doc that knows what he’s talking about and get your self straight.
@yeti308 are you suggesting my free T must be high and out of range to feel good? This is the first I’m hearing of this. Is there some science to back that up? Also I haven’t even seen my doctor yet to discuss these results so assuming I need a new doctor is odd.
@enackers I have a good doctor. I have event seen him to discuss these results with him yet. I was simply bouncing my labs off yall for your thoughts. There is no one size all proper dose. I chose this dose based on the rearch I did and now I will go see my doc. No matter how much you want to rush this process you can’t. This is the first step in the process. It’s my first labs.
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Ok that’s good. Didn’t realize how long you had been doing this.
If it’s first labs you are right it’s going to take time.
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You haven’t been researching the same docs and articles I hve.
Every doc has their own clinical experience and many docs who optimize men are going to say something similar. Even docs who disagree on some topics will agree that lab ranges are bullshit and don’t get a so called sticker shock when someone says 30 or 25.
This is based on his experience. Can’t question that. Saying the range for men is 10-21 via a lab Corp range is not something to follow. Just 2 years ago the high end was 25. Who is to Say 30 was in range 10 years ago. What was the free t range for a healthy man not effected by pollutants 100 years ago?
You should question labs because one size does not fit all.
May men feel better with higher free t anyways. Dose to symptom resolution or some get stuck with a doc who keeps you at 15 and says “you don’t need more free t”. Your issues lay elsewhere.
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I’m soaking this all in. I anticipate I will be bumping my dose up to 50mg e3.5d to experiment with that protocol for 6 weeks.
I would just go to 60 e3.5. Your free t is super low. You might over shoot but I doubt it. It won’t hurt . You can always drop it a little if needed. The other option is to keep waiting 6 weeks and do labs and continue. I would rather get there faster. Especially if you have low t like I did the first 3 months when I hired the doc above her shot me up to the high 20s and into the 30s and I felt great within a month.