you need to get off TRT for a little while. I get shortness of breath around 52 HCT. Your blood pressure combined with your hemo is bad news.
This ^^
some people over here dont think that is hogh but i personally start to wake up with numb arms when hct gets to 51. And i dont feel comfortable being that high.
it needs to be below 0.50 for me to feel fine as naturally without exogenous test i am at around 0.47.
Eating one grapefruit a day helped. My current protocol is 62.5mg test 2x per week and 750 iu hcg 2x per week (lowered from 3x oer week, hefty dose, but i will be coming off in a few weeks) with 12.5mg aromasin 2x per week (day of injections, both hcg and test are injectef the same day).
also people are saying best to avoid ai. I agree, bit i dont feel right if i dont take one. First of all, i have no libido and secondly i start to get that weird feeling of sadness like it would take very little to make me feel very down/depressed. I start to feel down if i dont take an ai.
With aromasin, libido is great.
My labs were as follows:
16th of september
Hct 0.51
Hb 178
Rbc count 6.02
Started earing grapefruit maybe a day or two later
30th of september (this monday)
Hct 0.498
Hb 167
Rbc count 5.6
And i have even been spending a portion of the week at 2000' elevation.
Taking into account that my values were rising prior to 16th, a week prior to that i was at hb 172 and hct 0.507.
Grapefruit works and this is the second timd it helped. Last time i ate one grapefruit per day for almost a month and hct was 0.453 with hb at 156.
Most importantly, i am jot waking ul with numb arms anymore.
edit: both test were done first thing in the morning with exactly 2 cups of water 30 minutes before (i always have the same schedule when i draw blood).