Got Bloodwork Back...Interesting.....

[Spyke]

You guys know now that I am on HRT I plan on running my own bloodwork every 6 months from now on. I just got the labs back because this is the 6 month mark for me. It was a total HDL/LDL CBC and testosterone with PSA.

Here we go:

Glucose, Serum 101 65-99 mg/dL
I have always been right around the high limit with glucose so this is nothing new. Just keep loosing fat and keep an eye on it..

RBC 5.26 4.10-5.60

HDL is 46 and LDL is 120
Guess my total cholestrol is 166? If so it was 210 pre HRT

PSA is 0.4
Was 0.2 before HRT but may be another lab scale.

Total test is only 566 but this was a day before I was due to inject. Guess I could bump up the dose. So why the acne?????? I am gonna bump up the test a bit and take some time off the weekly HCG and see what happens.


Thoughts????

[Kale]

How old are you ?

[Mobligator]

Numbers look good to me.

[Mobligator]

How old are you ?

Kale,

Whats your latest PSA? Did the antibiotics bring it down any more?

[zaggahamma]

You guys know now that I am on HRT I plan on running my own bloodwork every 6 months from now on. I just got the labs back because this is the 6 month mark for me. It was a total HDL/LDL CBC and testosterone with PSA.

Here we go:

Glucose, Serum 101 65-99 mg/dL
I have always been right around the high limit with glucose so this is nothing new. Just keep loosing fat and keep an eye on it..

RBC 5.26 4.10-5.60

HDL is 46 and LDL is 120
Guess my total cholestrol is 166? If so it was 210 pre HRT

PSA is 0.4
Was 0.2 before HRT but may be another lab scale.

Total test is only 566 but this was a day before I was due to inject. Guess I could bump up the dose. So why the acne?????? I am gonna bump up the test a bit and take some time off the weekly HCG and see what happens.


Thoughts????

about the acne, i just thought i remember you thinking the dhea was givin that shiat to you and u stopped and it went away, then you talked about going back on...well are you munchin on those pills again?


lipid #'s look pretty good and an improvement....kudos


rbc on high side as you probably know...i started donating to try and combat my similar levels

and last but not least....i'll be doing blood work today for a read on the 17th after being on average of 300/wk test cyp and arimidex 1mg EOD. As of today my last injection was 17 days ago and only 1mg tab of dex about half way out.

Forgot to add...Never remember feeling any better

best of luck to you bro

[vermin]

HDL is 46 and LDL is 120
Guess my total cholestrol is 166? If so it was 210 pre HRT

PSA is 0.4
Was 0.2 before HRT but may be another lab scale.

Total test is only 566

First, off your total is not HDL + LDL. You need your triglycerides, too. Didn't you get them? Overall, a LDL of 120 is pretty high, though your HGL is good. Without a number, I'd guess around 200 triglycerides, which would put you at 216 total.

From Wikipedia:

Patients should be aware that most testing methods for LDL do not actually measure LDL in their blood, much less particle size. For cost reasons, LDL values have long been estimated using the Friedewald formula: [total cholesterol] − [total HDL] − 20% of the triglyceride value = estimated LDL. The basis of this is that Total cholesterol is defined as the sum of HDL, LDL, and VLDL. Ordinarily just the Total, HDL, and Triglycerides are actually measured. The VLDL is estimated as one-fifth of the Triglycerides. It is important to fast for at least 8-12 hours before the blood test because the triglyceride level varies significantly with food intake.

A PSA of 0.4 is nothing.

Total test is still low, unless you are 70yo. Even then, quality of life would be better with it at 900. If you are timing your injections right the fact that it was the day before an injection should not be overly consequential.

[Kale]

Kale,

Whats your latest PSA? Did the antibiotics bring it down any more?

Since my last post I have been on antibiotics (cycin) and I am still on them . After three days of antibiotics it went from 8 to 5.6 as you know. I will do another test in two weeks or so.

[Mobligator]

Since my last post I have been on antibiotics (cycin) and I am still on them . After three days of antibiotics it went from 8 to 5.6 as you know. I will do another test in two weeks or so.

I'm not familiar with cycin but my preference would be bactrim or cipro. It sounds like your problem was an infection though. I took bactrim over period of 20 years and it worked real good. My last PSA was 0.05 on 11-3-06. Unfortunatey my estrogen was 122, (twice as high as my test) so I told my doc I wanted to do something to get it down. I have those love handles now that I never had before in my life. There are a couple assholes in the AR forum who think I can't get it up but that's not true. With my test being so low I have no desire to get it up, no libido and that all started when they gave me a shot of Lupron back in 2002. (chemical castration) Took over a year for that to wear off but when I take enanthate or Andro my erections come back but the truth is I can do without them. It frees my mind now to do other things more constructive. I pissed away a lot of time in the gym over 50 + Years that I could have used studing during my academic years and was so preoccupied with sex, (chasing women) that maybe I could have been a doctor or a lawyer instead of the underachiever I am today. Mark Twain hit it right on the head when he said,"youth is wasted on the young".

[Kale]

Hey Mob

Cycin is the brand name I am using. Its Chemical name is Ciprofloxacin so its all good. 122 for Estro sucks. Cant you take some Arimidex to lower that. Seriously the treatment for Prostate Cancer sucks, and I know I have said it before but I would rather check out than go through any kind of castration. I hear your attitude towards sex but I have always been very highly sexed and I still am and to lose that would seriously kill me. Nice to see your PSA is staying where it should. Cure is the obvious result of your treatment.

[Spyke]

Thanks guys! Yeah according to the bloodtests my total cholestrol is 186 (missed that before), I guess it is not just HDL+LDL but since I was above 200before hrt I am happy with it.

I have never been on anything for the prostate since it is just a 0.4. I will keep an eye on that for the rest of my life and if it ever jumps up a significant amount, I will see the doc right away.

Maybe I will look into the giving blood thing. I dont think my RBC is a problem but if I can make it even better plus help others, then it may be worth the hassle.

I am on 150mg of cyp per week. I am actually thinking of bumping up to 200mg. What do you guys think? Remember I am 566 now but that was the day before I inject.

[Dangerdan]

Isnt' 566 free test pretty damn good, especially the day before an injection. My free test lvls are always under 300 and I'm only 27.

[vermin]

It was total test.

[zaggahamma]

Thanks guys! Yeah according to the bloodtests my total cholestrol is 186 (missed that before), I guess it is not just HDL+LDL but since I was above 200before hrt I am happy with it.

I have never been on anything for the prostate since it is just a 0.4. I will keep an eye on that for the rest of my life and if it ever jumps up a significant amount, I will see the doc right away.

Maybe I will look into the giving blood thing. I dont think my RBC is a problem but if I can make it even better plus help others, then it may be worth the hassle.

I am on 150mg of cyp per week. I am actually thinking of bumping up to 200mg. What do you guys think? Remember I am 566 now but that was the day before I inject.

I seem to feel better a bit higher that's why i was aking how you feel on where you're at now, etc. but that's just me.

[Spyke]

Yeah, I am gonna try to up it and see how I feel. I think I could go up a ways higher towards the high cut off. Maybe there is a couple more lbs of muscle to be had from hrt by doing this.......


The acne thing has me really confused though! If my levels were way too high, then that would have explained it to me. But now I am really looking at the HCG as the culprit.