Can I get my hematocrit level up faster, or is it best to let it rise up slowly?
Don’t be in a hurry… Each 4000 iu dose will put your hematocrit up a small increment, and it will stay there, for example, 120 days… so after 120 days you would go down that little amount, and not all that you went up with all the shots together… So if you go UP slowly, you will go DOWN slowly too, in the future. But this is only my suggestion… there are kidney patients that take doses of 40,000 iu at a time, so it is not dangerous if you take 4000 iu every day, or even two doses of 4000 iu together in one shot. I have found that, in fact, my hematocrit stays up a lot longer than 120 days. I THINK the reason has to do with the fact that I keep my glucose levels always VERY LOW, or even RELATIVELY VERY LOW, compared to the population on which they probably obtained the statistics that says that hematocrit stays up 120 days. Those might have been sick people, many of them are diabetics, and others are end stage kidney disease patients… So maybe it stays up 120 days on them, but