Donated Blood Today

[Ezskanken]

I have never donated blood before, and I am so glad I didn't see the size of the needle before she stuck me...WOW! I'm thinking an 18g at least. Needed to lower my RBC count. Now I'm feeling pretty dizzy, and thankfully the wife is letting me lay down for a bit ha ha.

EDIT: So I was done at 8:30 am. I usually get to the gym around 8:30pm, have any of you lifted the same day of donating? Or just take the day off?

[BABY1]

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Hopefully that will work. Usually you need to donate a pint a week for awhile for it to help. Fuzo did that for a couple of months and it helped a little.

[guns01]

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take the day off man or at least wait 8 hours or more. you may go down if you push yourself

[daved150]

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i did it....donated in the morning, trained in the evening...kept fluids pretty high for the day...drank plenty of oj.... it was fine for me. but...with what your trying to do i dont know if all the drinking is counter productive or not

[OfficerFarva]

I donated for my first time last week and they used a 16 gauge needle. It looked more like a harpoon.

[skinnyman]

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As Dave said...i've done the same