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You might also consider that you may yo-yo up and down for some time as well before you try to make any conclusions or establish what is normal for you. Your past usage, as you previously noted, may have some negative impact on your levels in a permanent way as well.
Exactly. A friend of mine got wide-eyed when I told him it took me up to a year to fully recover.
I think you make a good point. After all, can a man tell the difference between when his testosterone levels are at 400 as opposed to 280? I doubt it. Here's what we know for sure: massive doses of testosterone in the ballpark of 500-1500mg's (or more) per week causes muscle growth and strength increases. At that level, it's almost a no brainer. But when you consider a guy not using blasts of hormones; people that just want to feel good and keep their levels in a particular range artificially to live a better life, that's a different thing altogether - and not very easy to gauge.
Looks perfectly normal to me. I'm still concerned about your width. How are you on other B vits? Iron? Something is causing you to vary from normal there. You may be iron depleted based on the relationship to folates in formation of rbc's. I would drop the B12 and see how iron repletion (that is, in fact, if you are depleted) affects your RDW. I think approx 350mg of ferrous sulfate once daily is fairly normal for repletion.
To add to what OTH mentioned, I believe I have iron deficiency anemia. My RDW is always high, mcv and mch low, hemo and hema on low end, low total iron, very high b12. When I was using curcumin, it worsened my values and my iron came in at the lowest I had seen. So I began doing some research and found out that "curcumin was found to alter iron metabolism by chelating iron and suppressing the protein hepcidin, potentially causing iron deficiency in susceptible patients."
