Poor bloodwork results

[Professor Karman]

Stats: Age 43 Height 6' Weight 230 BF 15% or so

Cycle History: 4 past cycles

Last cycle: 600 mg test E a week, 300mg NPP a week. 12 weeks total. 500IU HcG a week on cycle.
Last cycle PCT: clomid 100/50/50/25 (wanted to see how I reacted to no nolvadex and lowish clomid after I ran HCG). I am currently running approx 2IU of Hgh a day ( I say approx because they are ppls supposedly underdosed black tops).

Diet: Lots of rice and chicken. Red meat a few times a week. Fair amount of dairy (cottage cheese every night and greek yogurt for breakfast 3 to 4 times a week). Lots of greens. Cheat meal 2 times a week when not cutting up. Don't drink, don't smoke but do dip (bad Professor..need to quit). Not taking anything specific for LDL/HDL. Used to use fish oil but stopped.

Exercise: Lift 6 times a week. Cardio anywhere from 20-45 minutes anywhere from 3 to 6 times a week (depending on whether cutting or not). Usually incline walking with some sprinting/basketball once in a while).

Current Bloods: Taken 4 weeks post PCT ending. First time taking bloods (i know i know, again, bad Professor..)

Family history: Mom's side has high cholesterol while my father's side of the family does have some diabetes in it.

Symptoms: Libido actually pretty good right now. Body feels like it has a lot of inflammation. Joints sore, I get lots of pinched nerves in my neck/back which I attribute to general inflammation. I also have ulcerative colitis, which I am taking Lialda for, which can cause some general body inflammation. I also get (what I think is) hypoglycemic quite often.

I am particularly concerned about the cholesterol numbers and high normal blood glucose. Low test/estro I can live with for now. Not sure how bad that RBC number is.

Thoughts? I have a gastro doctor but no GP atm.

 

[Professor Karman]

Also taking berberine 500 mg 2 to 3 times a day..forgot to put that.

 

[Professor Karman]

Figured I'd put down what I am going to do to improve my bloodwork. First off, will get more regular bloodwork from now on, both on and off cycle.I should have been doing that from the beginning..Gave blood yesterday to help with RBC numbers. Ordered some fish oil and niacin to help with cholesterol numbers and will re-test blood in 4 weeks to see where I am at. Also going to up cardio a bit. If test/estro numbers don't improve will look into some herbal supps to get them up some and if that doesn't help will look into TRT. We are done with kids (wife is expecting third in a few months) and if I can improve the aches and pains to let me run around with my kids without looking like a 100 year old man it would be worth the inconvenience of pinning for the rest of my life.

 

[Vlad The Impaler]

stop smashing your e2 so much and lipids will get better

 

[Professor Karman]

stop smashing your e2 so much and lipids will get better

I haven't done anything to smash them tbh. Last cycle I was taking asin 12.5mg EOD. Of course without bloods during the cycle I have no idea if this still brought them too low..live an learn I guess. Low e2 right now is probably due to low test right? I mean with low test there isn't much of anything to convert to E2.

 

[Eman]

Your cholesterol isn't quite as high as the reference range is making it out to be I don't think. It's borderline though.

Best thing you can do is be mindful of it and pull bloods again in a month or so to see how things look. Hopefully you'll see an improvement by being proactive. If not, it'll be time to plan a new course of action.

 

[Professor Karman]

I haven't done anything to smash them tbh. Last cycle I was taking asin 12.5mg EOD. Low e2 right now is probably due to low test right? I mean with low test there isn't much of anything to convert to E2.

Your cholesterol isn't quite as high as the reference range is making it out to be I don't think. It's borderline though.

Best thing you can do is be mindful of it and pull bloods again in a month or so to see how things look. Hopefully you'll see an improvement by being proactive. If not, it'll be time to plan a new course of action.

Mom's side of the family has cholesterol issues so it worries me some. Of course there hasn't been any heart attacks on that side for a few generations so whether that is due to modern medicine or over-magnifying the correlation of LDL/HDL numbers and heart attacks I don't know. Either way I am going to make sure I monitor in the future, both off and on cycle.