
Originally Posted by
Sworder
You won't be able to donate if you answer the questions truthfully. Injecting drugs which are not prescribed to you will disqualify you. Testosterone prescribed from a physician is a different story. If you are injecting UGL steroids or anything else you will be contaminating the blood supply!
Donating is supposed to be a good deed, not a selfish act to lower your hematocrit. Do not rely on the screening to be successful, I don't know where Cape read that they test for AAS but they test mainly for infectious diseases. Doing a full screen of everything would be a big waste of money for them and you aren't helping anybody by doing this. Certain drugs such as Propecia can cause birth defects.
If you need to lower your hematocrit go to your doctor and get a script for a therapeutic phlebotomy.
PROTECT OUR BLOOD SUPPLY!
Please and thank you!
If you still decide to donate please call the blood bank center it is stored at and say you caught the flu the next day or they usually have an automatic messaging where you just input date and donor number and they will discard the blood. Another thing, when they test your "iron" they are testing your hemoglobin so ask them for that value and your hematocrit is your hemoglobin x3. 50 is considered high, this is for your reference they won't tell you the hemoglobin unless you ask for it.