recent blood work

[animal-inside]

I'm on 100mg trt.. doctor wanted testing done when I was injecting once a week.. I injected every wednesdy. Doctor wanted my blood drawn halfway through the week, so basically to find the middle of my test levels.. Long story short, I got bloods drawn on Friday 8:30 am (yesterday) and my 100mg shot was done thursday night. Basically got my blood work done after injecting 100mg the night before after 8 days of last shot.

estradiol- 86
PSA- 0.5
test total- 11.2
TSH-0.95
free T4-20.1
prolactin- 6.2
LH- <0.1
FSH- 0.4
cortisol- 371
Albumin- 42
sodium- 139
potassium 4.5
chloride-102
carbon dioxide- 28
anion Gap- 9
Auto WB- 6.4
RBC- 5.96
hemoglobin- 172
hematocrit- 0.53
MVC- 325
RDW- 14.4
platelets- 224

I'm waiting for a couple more results to come in, but based on the above, I think I'm doing good. I could probably donate some blood.

 

[BigKahuna]

I have all of my clients start tracking their water intake, and drinking a minimum of 1.5 gallons/day when they join my team.

From their baseline bloods to either mid-cycle or health phase update bloodwork, their RBC/HTC all drastically improves…

I’m an advocate of donating once per year, but I’ve found most guys are just shortchanging themselves when it comes to hydration. Only time I’m sending a client to donate is if their hematology is alarmingly over the ref range.

 

[gondar1]

I'm on 100mg trt.. doctor wanted testing done when I was injecting once a week.. I injected every wednesdy. Doctor wanted my blood drawn halfway through the week, so basically to find the middle of my test levels.. Long story short, I got bloods drawn on Friday 8:30 am (yesterday) and my 100mg shot was done thursday night. Basically got my blood work done after injecting 100mg the night before after 8 days of last shot.

Cyp? So you did the draw at almost the lowest possible point in the trough? Rather than at the middle as requested, was that your intent? I think is he is versed well enough in this to view the whole panel all together it's gonna look a bit suspect. That may not be too big a deal though as you historically have some crazy shit going on in other areas

 

[gondar1]

I have all of my clients start tracking their water intake, and drinking a minimum of 1.5 gallons/day when they join my team.

From their baseline bloods to either mid-cycle or health phase update bloodwork, their RBC/HTC all drastically improves…

I’m an advocate of donating once per year, but I’ve found most guys are just shortchanging themselves when it comes to hydration. Only time I’m sending a client to donate is if their hematology is alarmingly over the ref range.

Good on you for doing that, hydration effect on those markers is hugely underrated. Such a shame cause it's simple and free. Having said that you'll note I said simple not easy, I fail at it myself for some unknown reason. I'm pretty disciplined about most things but struggle to get enough water down. Tried differnt ways of measuring it out for the day etc but so often end up way behind by bedtime and then resist cause I don't wanna be up pissing all night.

Any tips for folks who struggle with it?

 

[BigKahuna]

Good on you for doing that, hydration effect on those markers is hugely underrated. Such a shame cause it's simple and free. Having said that you'll note I said simple not easy, I fail at it myself for some unknown reason. I'm pretty disciplined about most things but struggle to get enough water down. Tried differnt ways of measuring it out for the day etc but so often end up way behind by bedtime and then resist cause I don't wanna be up pissing all night.

Any tips for folks who struggle with it?

Yeah brother I know this is just gonna sound extremely broad, but it’s all about how you frame it in my experience.

I just keep a 1L bottle on hand at all times and just look at it as only having to drink 4 of them to be where I need to be. Then next thing you know with training alongside just keeping it on hand at all times, I’ve put down 6-8 of them by the end of the day.

I’ve tried it all, carrying around the 1 gallon jug, the mammoth mugs… Just getting a plain old 40oz bottle and keeping it front of mind has worked best, easy to carry around as well.

That alongside setting a hard cutoff on caffeine and any form of leisure drinks as well (diet pop etc…)

 

[Ladiesman217]

I have all of my clients start tracking their water intake, and drinking a minimum of 1.5 gallons/day when they join my team.

From their baseline bloods to either mid-cycle or health phase update bloodwork, their RBC/HTC all drastically improves…

I’m an advocate of donating once per year, but I’ve found most guys are just shortchanging themselves when it comes to hydration. Only time I’m sending a client to donate is if their hematology is alarmingly over the ref range.

Some really great advice I had the same issues hematocrit being high not knowing I just needed to track water and be on top of electrolytes cardio and steps are also underrated

 

[Ladiesman217]

Good on you for doing that, hydration effect on those markers is hugely underrated. Such a shame cause it's simple and free. Having said that you'll note I said simple not easy, I fail at it myself for some unknown reason. I'm pretty disciplined about most things but struggle to get enough water down. Tried differnt ways of measuring it out for the day etc but so often end up way behind by bedtime and then resist cause I don't wanna be up pissing all night.

Any tips for folks who struggle with it?

I had the same problem I just bought a gallon water bottle from Amazon dump some electrolytes and bring it to work bring it pretty much everywhere lol don’t try to make it a race I use to over hydrate and cramp up spread it through the day pace yourself morning evening afternoon night

 

[gondar1]

Yeah brother I know this is just gonna sound extremely broad, but it’s all about how you frame it in my experience.

I just keep a 1L bottle on hand at all times and just look at it as only having to drink 4 of them to be where I need to be. Then next thing you know with training alongside just keeping it on hand at all times, I’ve put down 6-8 of them by the end of the day.

I’ve tried it all, carrying around the 1 gallon jug, the mammoth mugs… Just getting a plain old 40oz bottle and keeping it front of mind has worked best, easy to carry around as well.

That alongside setting a hard cutoff on caffeine and any form of leisure drinks as well (diet pop etc…)

Thanks for the reply, it is broad but that's because it's so simple, I tell myself just do it but for some reason it's a habit I've not had success adopting well enough. Serious self disappointment, your reminder will help. Strange that I'm stellar at breaking bad habits. I feel so hypocritical telling advising others to do it. At least I'll get 2 liters in at the gym.
Maybe I'm urinationaphobic.

I had the same problem I just bought a gallon water bottle from Amazon dump some electrolytes and bring it to work bring it pretty much everywhere lol don’t try to make it a race I use to over hydrate and cramp up spread it through the day pace yourself morning evening afternoon night

yeah I def need to take smaller more frequent sips