Donating blood while on cycle

I know a lot of you guys understand the importance of donating blood while on cycle. My question is, do any of you do it? As I am sure you realize that our blood is not quite good to donate to a female recipient. Myself, being that I work in the medical field, I just have a phlebotomist take some of my blood and toss it. I want to get some of your opinions on whether or not you donate.

Also, do any of you donate plasma? I do, its just easy money! Plus, being a veteran i get more money per donation! So i get like 50 bucks for like 45 minutes of my time, and some nice ass admiring on those phlebs. Now, I personally would never recommend donating plasma while on cycle, because you're HCT is already way high. Donating plasma is only going to further increase your HCT, which puts you at more risk for developing a blood clot somewhere.



Post up your opinions guys, I wanna see what you all think and do on this matter.

I donate blood every 3 or 4 months, unless my HCT is rising faster then I do more.

See that'w why I like that I work in a place where I can just bleed myself as needed. A few vials here, a few vials there. always keeping my HCT in check.

I need to donate now the back pumps are firing up hard. I wonder if I could get some leeches and do it with them. I bet those leeches would gets swole after sucking on me for a bit.

I do the double red blood cell donations.............that is what I have too much of anyways.

I donate every 4 months normally while cycling for sure i do I read an article somewhere which was telling that very little amount of test is withdrawn through donation which is normal and has no illeffects

I agree it's absolutely a good idea, but I have a serious problem with blood and needles... ya it doesn't make sense, but get a needle near my vein and I pass out.

The Dude said:

I agree it's absolutely a good idea, but I have a serious problem with blood and needles... ya it doesn't make sense, but get a needle near my vein and I pass out.

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You notice the irony in this right:laugh:

The Dude said:

I agree it's absolutely a good idea, but I have a serious problem with blood and needles... ya it doesn't make sense, but get a needle near my vein and I pass out.

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They don't even have to be near a vein for me. Every time I pin I wonder how I just did it. I had 3ml going in the ass last Thursday and they syringe slipped out of my hand and was swinging around hanging out of my ass. I was like fuck me!

Every 56 days... As humans we have between a 1/2-2 pints more than we need . throwing in some yummy Gear and watch out...I actually started donating before 2011 after u learned that our hearts work harder and stress our vascular system when we have to much blood.

cloudstrife1218 said:

See that'w why I like that I work in a place where I can just bleed myself as needed. A few vials here, a few vials there. always keeping my HCT in check.

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Does a few vials really make a difference? I mean in the scheme of things. How much blood do you have to drain off to truly make a difference?

I donate blood usually every 8 weeks on cycle. The paper I fill out asks me about anabolic steroids, but as others stated, the amount drawn is very, very small. I had a friend who got a blood clot in his lung while on cycle because his rbc was too high, which scared the shit out of me. So after that, I made it a point to get to the center every 8-10 weeks.