Now I'm stressing on my rdw lol.
No need to stress man, they make it sound like it's an useless indicator if not accompanied by low Mcv,mchc, mch, or some random disease.
Just weird why it climbed all of a sudden. All I'm doing is adding iron an iron supplement to offset possible anemia (possible from frequent blood donations/ high RDW low Mcv or mchc)
and reevaluating.
You know the Red Cross considers 3 blood donations per year for men to be considered frequent donations and recommend an iron supplement for those donors.
Seeing that I damn near doubled that donation requirement, didn't supplement iron, yet stayed on Trt only complicated things (raised RDW, lowered Mcv by donating and increased RBC's with Trt). That's why I'm opting to retest again in February. Every action has a reaction I guess, we just need to find a balance.
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