posted Fri, 05/01/2020 - 16:44
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Hemoglobin after donation
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What's up my eroid brother's I have a question for you all that have donated blood. So my question is can anyone tell me from personal experience that after donating blood what there hemoglobin dropped down too?? So basically testing your hemoglobins before donating and testing right away after donation. What where the results before and after and also did you donate whole blood or double red's??
Thanks fellas
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A guy your size has about 12 pints of blood. (If your stats are updated). One pint would be a little over an 8% change. (8.33 to be exact)
I'm 10lbs heavier and 5yrs older
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Honestly I wouldn't put much weight on the variation from one donation. There are way too many variables that could over assert themselves (too heavily weighted bias)
What I would recommend you do if you want solid, statistically relevant data is record all of your baseline blood work, then once a baselines is established, donate once per fixed period of time (i.e. once every 12 weeks) and record your post donation values. Do this for 4 cycles (roughly one year) and you will have a solid data set showing you what your average baseline values are, the impact of donating and your average post donation levels . Used wisely, these data points should give you more than enough information on how donation impacts your baseline levels, and how to utilize blood donations to add safety to your on cycle protection protocol while also potentially saving lives.
I just did my first donation last week they would only let me do 1 bag of whole blood because they didn't know my blood type at the time and neither did I. My Dr recommended I donate because my hemoglobin was at 18.1ng