Telmisartan: one month nuked hematocrit

[y777]

Hi guys

Just wanted to share a field report.

Background: first time gear user this summer. TRT since the early spring.

Hematocrit
Pre TRT 43
100 mg Test-C TRT 47 (six week bloods)
100 mg Test-C 49 a month later
did a mini 8wk blast with my pharma test (250/w) and hematocrit was 53 at the end of it.

Then I started gear

Never ran test below 500
Winstrol 50mg/d for six weeks
Primo >600 per week

A month ago l started Telmisartan. One week at 40mg then bumped it to 80mg and have been running it since (I also run 5mg Cialis since TRT days )

Anyway…. I was shocked my hematocrit dropped this low

Hematocrit 42% (40-51% range )

Hemoglobin 13

RBC , WBC, platelets all within mid normal range



Huge relief for me cuz if you’re on Finasteride you can’t donate blood (it would mess up a male fetus if a pregnant woman ever got your blood) and I’d need a doc to prescribe me therapeutic phlebotomy , and I kinda want to run my cycles off the books , so to speak.

 

[Deezznutzz]

Yep. 80mg lowers mine quite a bit. I used to donate a lot. Now two or three times a year.

 

[Avies48]

Hemaglobin is WAY TO LOW FOR A GUY!! A woman has an upper range of 12-13… men 15-18….. id get some more blood work done and check ur iron stores thats low hemaglobin showing iron issues my dewd

 

[y777]

hi guys

i want to update the post on my telmisartan use. just had bloods done and here are some takeaways after 80 mg daily use

the bloods were done a month after stoppping tren (700/d, 6 weeks), nov and dec ran test at 210/w (prop) but month ago dropped to 150 to match my rx trt for the bloods.

for the below results i was on weekly “cruise“ of
test p 150
primo 525
mast p 300

all pinned daily.

hemoglobin 13.4 (13.0-17.7 ref range )
hematocrit 43.7%

these were the flagged numbers

MCH 26.0 (26.6-33)
MCHC 30.7 ( 31.5-35.7)
RDW 18.4% (11.6-15.4)

potassium 5.3 (3.5-5.2)


the one sise effect i’ve had in general has been leg cramps.

sometimes i wake up and they’re bad - i cant
get out of bed and just have to endure the pain and it stops.

wife said it’s cuz i eat 3+ bananas daily that my potassium is this high but im guessing it’s the telmisartan.

i never had serious BP issues on cycle pre telmisartan. maybe up too high 130s on systolic so my main reason for taking telmisartan is the hematocrit , which has crept up fast even when on vanilla trt before i did any gear ever.

i started cutting my telmi pills in half and just taking 40 per day. hopefully it helps w these numbers while keeping hematocrit in check

thoughts ?


//not meaning to hijack the thread but if anyone is interested in what 20 mg of daily crestor does with lipids here are my results


total cholesterol 134 (100-199 ref range)
HDL 31 (> 39)
LDL 80 (0-99 range )


before creator or any gear or even before TRT at the start of 2022 my lipids were

HDL 54
HDL was 48 after couple of months on doctor TRT


LDL 195 before statins or TRT
LDL 40 after couple of months of crestor 20mg

total cholesterol was 280 before crestor or TRT then went down to 105 after a few months of crestor

curious what y'all think regarding the lipids. it was only 2.5 weeks that i stopped taking var. i was taking some niacin plus the crestor the entire time

ive read stories of single digit HDL folks posted while using var: would mine have been this high if i tested it two weeks earlier ? i was under the impression that lipids take months to recover after coming off cycle. otherwise it could have been the creator keeping a lid on Hdl damage?