which one is more effective and all around better to have a healthy and normal BP. with the increases on cycle...
Which route do you go?
blood donation or BP meds to keep everything in check?
does this even make sense? any info is apreciated.
Printable View
which one is more effective and all around better to have a healthy and normal BP. with the increases on cycle...
Which route do you go?
blood donation or BP meds to keep everything in check?
does this even make sense? any info is apreciated.
I do all three........................
Baby aspirin has little effect on blood pressure, if any.
Donating blood will only help if the hypertension is due to increased hematocrit. But this is hardly the only reason our BP rises on cycle.
So the sensible thing to do is keep hematocrit in range and medicate with BP meds as needed.
Asprin should be every day period on or off cycle. It is the single best stroke prevention medicine on the planet.
BP meds I do off cycle also. I reside around 128/80 without them and with 120/75 (Rentac). You should own a hand held computerised BP monitor IMHO and check after your workouts. This is the litmus of where your BP goes to. It will help you see why that little bump down I get from my meds is so important.
You HAVE to give blood on cycle..period. This is not optional. THIS is the single most dangerous aspect of steroid cycling. Over 70% of people experience a stroke in their life. You really do not want that.
wow thanks both. this clarifies things a lot.
But isn't donating blood done in order to decrease hematocrit levels, ultimately done to lower BP?
given the case BP is in order on cycle because of meds why is it necessary to donate blood? (according to your post)
When you do your cycle do a pre-cycle lab and a 6 week lab with Complete Blood Panel. You see hemocrit go up fairly drastic (I was under range pre blood work and went up to top of range in 6-weeks). Hemocrit is the "fancy" name...I prefer PCV (Packed Cell Volume). So for the same volume of blood you have way more red blood cells. Blow water through a straw...easy. Blow coke through a straw...about the same. Blow custard through a straw...harder. Blow jello through a straw...much harder. This would be examples of HCT going up and what happens inside your blood vessels and the exertion of your heart.
WHere do the issues start?
Plaque built up in the smaller vessels in important areas due to cholesterol. Brain stem stroke is very common in Westerners and is the number one area for plaque build up in blood vessels. Aspirin thins the blood via reducing the stickiness of cell to cell. So your groups of cells that could clog a passageway is reduced (good). BP meds are vaso dialators which make the blood vessels not constrict but dialate open (good). Giving blood reduces the overall concentration of red blood cells in the plasma which reduces clusters and RBC ion general (good).
In effect all of this reduces chance of stroke and work of the heart during resting.
You guys donate on cycle? Won't they notice something? I stopped donating bc I'm in a cycle now. Hmmmmm. I like to donate regularly so this might be good news.
I'm on Tren and Sustanon. Is it safe to give blood? I don't mean for me, but I don't want to give blood if it can seriously affect the other person...say a pregnant woman.