Hemoglobin and Hematocrit

[OldBatty]

Can we spell t-r-o-l-l?

Alfred C New Member - Alfred C Newman
Makes you think some care went in to picking the name.

 

[schismz]

My hemoglobin and hematocrit have jumped into the stratosphere. Hb was 16.7 and crit 55!!! I’m 61 y/o and have never seen my Hb above 15 or crit above 45-50.
Can we spell car-bon mo-nox-ide!
I think vaping will be going by the wayside like all the other pleasurable vices I’ve had to forgo….but, my health is more important for sure!

Just... giving you the benefit of the doubt and pre-supposing this is a genuine concern/issue and you're not trolling...

I'm very familiar with my bloodwork and labs, because I'm jacked and on full HRT, so I need quarterly bloodwork to navigate based upon the values I'm getting. HCT is a concern because higher levels of testosterone will often increase it along with HB and and RBCs, leading to the need for a therapeutic phlebotomy or just donating blood.

As a reference point, I've had my hematocrit @ 50, then re-done the same test a week later using same lab (LabCorp), and it dropped 5 points. Hematocrit can vary tremendously from day to day -- just like your liver enzymes AST/ALT can vary tremendously hour by hour, when you drink a bottle of tequila the night before testing liver enzymes, they will quite possibly be extremely high ... but if you retook the same test a day later, they'd be back to whatever your normal reference range is.

Anyway, most OTC pods are using nic salts and high VG. Very high VG is extremely dehydrating on your body. If you've been vaping it for years possibly you no longer notice this and your body adjusts. When I deviate from my daily drivers -- dicodes + kayfun doing roughly 50/50 pg/vg DIY -- and just wind up vaping JUUL or whatever was at the gas station that day, inevitably by the end of the day I'm really thirsty, my eyes and mouth feel dry, and I am... dehydrated. It's very noticeable to me.

Being dehydrated -- especially chronically -- often raises hematocrit.

Drink more water (even if it is a deadly toxin) and see if it goes down?

FWIW: started vaping blu e-cigs in 2009, switched from cigs to vaping full time in 2010 (by accident, my original intent was just to use the e-cigs as a crutch to get down to a pack a day); not dead yet, never had any weird health issues, and I've survived vaping 30mL a day of Ms. T's for 2+ years in the stone ages, and a few more years of 5ive p4wnZ when their e-liquid was essentially radioactive waste with the highest acetyl propionyl levels ever measured in vape juice (but, it was good!).

Cheers and good luck. If going back to combustible tobacco is your personal preference, by all means go for it, the cigarette companies would love to have you back.

Me, I'm gonna get back to vaping my cherry-vanilla ice cream cake, which I like much more since grifters and idiots have declared I'm not allowed to vape that.

In conclusion: f--k the FDA.

 

[denali_41]

vaping since june 09, work requires me to do bloodwork usually twice a year ,never any problems

look some where else for the blame

 

[Skeebo]

My hemoglobin and hematocrit have jumped into the stratosphere. Hb was 16.7 and crit 55!!! I’m 61 y/o and have never seen my Hb above 15 or crit above 45-50.
Can we spell car-bon mo-nox-ide!
I think vaping will be going by the wayside like all the other pleasurable vices I’ve had to forgo….but, my health is more important for sure!

Have you verified any of this through Google or Facebook?

 

[CMD-Ky]

Perhaps AC has passed due to Polycythemia vera, that elevated red cell count troubled me.

 

[Ed Brown]

......and the response was swift and devastating.