Thread: Blood test - help with CBC

Originally Posted by Geareduprn

Ok I will give you my thoughts. Your hemoglobin is a touch low. This is what is indicating anemia. Anemia simple means not enough red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the part of the red cell that carries the oxygen. The RDW or red cell distribution width measures how variable the sizes of your red cells are. In your case you have a large variety in your red cell sizes which means a lot of old and a lot of new red cells (big and small). That probably means that your body is replacing red cells that are being lost. Lost how is the question. Maybe a small bleed somewhere in your GI tract. I'm also wondering if your platelets are high because your body is trying to stop the bleed (that is what platelets do is clot at the source of a bleed). As far as your calcium I'm not sure. I know it's barely elevated but keep an eye on it. Really high calcium is very bad and often leads us to look for cancer. Please don't panic because your numbers are not anywhere near that but I'm just saying to watch them. I would start out by getting an occult stool test to see if there is some blood hiding in your stool. I'd your stool black? Also what are you taking at the moment other than aas

Thanks. A little creatine here and there, that’s about it other than AAS


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Originally Posted by Geareduprn

Lol I see there were a few posts made while I was typing. I see that you donated blood. That explains where the blood went. Your body doesn't know that you lost blood on purpose so that's why it's ramping up platelets. Stop donating blood and repeat your labs

I’ll give that a go and see where it’s at in about 5-6 weeks. I appreciate it.



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No problem. Reading blood work is one of my favorite things about my job so I'm happy to help anytime

Originally Posted by Geareduprn

Ok I will give you my thoughts. Your hemoglobin is a touch low. This is what is indicating anemia. Anemia simple means not enough red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the part of the red cell that carries the oxygen. The RDW or red cell distribution width measures how variable the sizes of your red cells are. In your case you have a large variety in your red cell sizes which means a lot of old and a lot of new red cells (big and small). That probably means that your body is replacing red cells that are being lost. Lost how is the question. Maybe a small bleed somewhere in your GI tract. I'm also wondering if your platelets are high because your body is trying to stop the bleed (that is what platelets do is clot at the source of a bleed). As far as your calcium I'm not sure. I know it's barely elevated but keep an eye on it. Really high calcium is very bad and often leads us to look for cancer. Please don't panic because your numbers are not anywhere near that but I'm just saying to watch them. I would start out by getting an occult stool test to see if there is some blood hiding in your stool. I'd your stool black? Also what are you taking at the moment other than aas

Very intelligent response bro!
I back this %100 !

I'm also thinking that it was from frequently donations.. like my man said..
try NOT donating for a few months and retest..
keep your eye on it aggressively!