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Bloodwork draw timing
I plan on getting some bloodwork done within the next month and just wanted to get some advice on draw timing and my last Testosterone Pin?
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What blood test are you referring to?
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Sorry should have elaborated more, Total and Free Testosterone.
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Tiny
What blood test are you referring to?
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I personally go in fasted in the am.. I do not change anything or plan around my injection times. I also inject daily soooo.. but fasted in the am seems to be the standard.
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I was having a lot of issues with twice a week injections, I switched to daily injections and that solved everything! Before I was getting too stimulated on the day of and finding it difficult to sleep along with having muscle cramps/spasms, now... none of it with daily injections!
But as for when to test... if you're only injecting once a week I'd wait a couple days post injection as the first 1-2 days you're going to have a much higher level... if you're doing twice a week I'd say take the test the day before your next injection.... Remember, if you inject and then test your numbers are going to be way higher!
If you wanted to be super technical, you could pull up a steroid calculator, plug in your injection frequency and amount, and then find on the graph where the median is between the peak and the low end and then get tested when it's in the middle.
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Appreciate the responses fellas!
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As devil said, morning and fasted 8-10 is the standard. Especially if doing other testing…ie glucose, insulin.
for testosterone, you want the Ms/lc testing method.
for estrogen, you want the sensitive estradiol testing method.
I like the marek health website for getting testing orders. Fair pricing and they have a lab builder that you can choose exactly what test you get…not a cookie cutter package. If you sign up on labcorp website, you can view your testing results. Do this before any bloodwork and it shows up in a couple days …labcorp on demand.
do your bloods often.
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Originally Posted by
Tiny
As devil said, morning and fasted 8-10 is the standard. Especially if doing other testing…ie glucose, insulin.
for testosterone, you want the Ms/lc testing method.
for estrogen, you want the sensitive estradiol testing method.
I like the marek health website for getting testing orders. Fair pricing and they have a lab builder that you can choose exactly what test you get…not a cookie cutter package. If you sign up on labcorp website, you can view your testing results. Do this before any bloodwork and it shows up in a couple days …labcorp on demand.
do your bloods often.
I’ve been using ultalabs, I’ll have to take a look at Marek, thanks!
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Originally Posted by
Devil1
I personally go in fasted in the am.. I do not change anything or plan around my injection times. I also inject daily soooo.. but fasted in the am seems to be the standard.
How the hell do you guys do the math on daily injection. I know id screw it up.
650/7
500/7
My head hurts thinking about it
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Originally Posted by
Devil1
I’ve been using ultalabs, I’ll have to take a look at Marek, thanks!
takes them a day or so to get you the requisition for labcorp so plan ahead if you use them. Don’t wait to the last minute to order. After the lab work, labcorp emailed me advising results were available before marek sent the results over.
if you stumble across any coupon codes, let me know.
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