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I'm all over the second, non medical advice. I have labs to test my ferritin & iron levels next week. If they look good I'm going to a different blood bank to donate again. My doctor wrote a script for therapeutic phlebotomy but only every 8 weeks, which is that the blood bank allows without a script so it's worthless. They did lower my dose from 200mg weekly to 175mg weekly, and I went even lower than they suggested to 120mg a week with every other day injections. but now I'm out of prescribed test and moving to some UGL i have stored for just this situation. It pisses me off they would start me on TRT, and 6 months later make me go cold turkey because my levels were high on a 200mg script they wrote.
AlphaMD's Answer
Good planning with the lab tests, most donation companies don't talk to one another at all.I would be annoyed as well. It's really interesting the spectrum of TRT providers, where they either make you jump through 50 hoops to give you next to nothing or they start you without ever talking you at 200-250.
For reference we feel starting between 140mg-160mg a week is ideal if primary or secondary hypogonadism then adjusting up from there as needed. Otherwise starting high and needing to go down in an emergency like that makes it really hard to know what the correct dose is for someone where they will feel benefits without additional side effects.
If they do force you off TRT all together, I would very much push them to take responsibility for your lowered natural production & provide HCG/Clomid to get it back to where it belongs. They very much should be responsable for that.
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