What is hematocrit's role in testosterone replacement therapy (TRT)? Will it affect ED? I recently got on Arimidex and the doctor has me on 1mg/day... I took 1mg on the first day and noticed I was getting light headed, so I didn't take any on the 2nd day, and on the 3rd day I took only 0.25mg, and now I think i'm just gonna do 0.25mg EOD... I started Arimidex because my E2 was like 72... Reference is 7.9 - 42. I thought that was the reason I'm having ED, but now... I'm just completely ED... Is it because of Arimidex or hematocrit??
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Megatron28
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Hematocrit is affected by taking testosterone. It increases your hematocrit. The answer is to donate blood regularly. What is your hematocrit as per your most recent blood work? It is part of the CBC panel. If you don't have hematocrit numbers for some reason you can look at hemoglobin or RBC's too.
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Megatron28
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Hmmmm... Just curious too... Why did you choose to take a higher dose of arimidex than guys on the forum were recommending? Do you think low E2 might affect your erections?
Megatron28
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I guess you will have to go back and read what I and other guys recommended to see.
halfwit
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1mg ED for adex??! Your doctor must either really hate you or he's just tossing darts at a dartboard and it landed on 1mg. My money is on that you crashed your E2. Yes, HCT can effect your ability to achieve an erection, but you'd see other nasty sides first like those associated with elevated blood pressure first would be my non-MD guess.
Oh, FYI: Hematocrit is the ratio of blood cells to the volume of blood. It also happens to be roughly three times your hemoglobin percentage. Hemoglobin being the protein that actually carries the oxygen in your blood given as a percentage. As you inject exogenous testosterone, your red marrow freaks out and starts spitting out red blood cells at an accelerated rate; increasing your HCT. Donations/therapeutic phlebotomies are the only ways to reduce this value AFAIK.
Edit: ONLY one way to know for sure mang, get that blood test and find out what's going on. It probably wasn't the best idea to lower your adex without talking to your doc, but that's between you two.
Daniel_IMT_Staff
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Lethargy and headaches would be the biggest side-effects of high HCT, imo.
