Frequent Blood Donations = Iron Deficiency

[Lockout888]

But did your trt-doctor advice this donation-protocol and talk to you abouth hematocrit?

Yes, we discussed high Hematocrit from TRT and he recommended giving blood regularly to keep it in check. But even if I had waited 12-16 weeks, my iron stores would have still depleted:

"Without iron supplementation, two thirds of the donors did not recover the iron lost from donating blood after 24 weeks"

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news...-recovery-time

[hammerheart]

Yes, we discussed high Hematocrit from TRT and he recommended giving blood regularly to keep it in check.

Yeah but how was your HCT back then. I mean, did you start donating without knowing it was high in first place? Your doc just advised to proceed, while no bloodwork was made?

[Lockout888]

Yeah but how was your HCT back then. I mean, did you start donating without knowing it was high in first place? Your doc just advised to proceed, while no bloodwork was made?

I started donating when it was up to 52.3%