Getting bloodwork done in Canada!

[weezer]

Anyone from here have any experience with getting blood tests done in Canada?
There is only one lab where I'm at and you have to see a doctor and have him send you for bloodwork. Any advice on how to get around this without telling the doc about AAS use. No medical problems just want to get my lipid,creatinine,liver vaules checked out. SHould i just ask to have these checked? Any help would be great!

[Windex]

Anyone from here have any experience with getting blood tests done in Canada?
There is only one lab where I'm at and you have to see a doctor and have him send you for bloodwork. Any advice on how to get around this without telling the doc about AAS use. No medical problems just want to get my lipid,creatinine,liver vaules checked out. SHould i just ask to have these checked? Any help would be great!

Getting creatinine, lipid panel, blood panel, and cholesterol checked is not a problem at all. You should be able to get those types of tests done 2-4 times a year for regular maintenance at your doctor. However, getting FSH, LH, Free Test, Total Test, Prolactin, etc are not going to be as easy. This is because the government pays for bloodwork in Canada and all of these tests are expensive (up to multiple hundreds of dollars per test), so a Doctor (morally-speaking) is not going to throw away the governments money "just because your curious - type of thing". The average male typically has highest test levels Around Age 18-21, but still has high levels from 21-25, and then slowly tapers off (again - varies by individual).

Realistically, there are only four reasons to get Test/Hormones/etc checked:

(1) You are currently on, are considering doing, or have done Anabolic Steroids
(2) You are considering a sex change
(3) Your a middle-age/matured male that has developed symptoms of low Testosterone
(4) You have a family history problem of Low Test that you could prove to your Doctor.

Aside from falling into one of those categories, your family doctor is not going to give you a requisition for Bloodwork. So how do you get it done ? Well this is how I went about it, this process may/may not work for you, and I don't advocate lying to a medical professional on a regular basis (Ironically, I'm a medical student, go figure).

Step 1: Find a corrupt (or "liberal" as people like to say) doctor and get the requisition from him. I happen to have a friend's father who is this type of person so it was easy.

Step 2: Once you get the requisition and get tested, print the results when they come in.

Step 3: Go to any Walk-in clinic, show your bloodwork, explain your doctor was testing you for low test (Here is the part you lie about since they will ask why) and either list off all the symptoms of low test that you "have' (*winkwink*) or say you have a family history of low test. Say that your doctor is on maternity leave but she wanted a re-check done. If your family doctor is a male, you could say he is going on vacation for X months. You now have a second requisition for bloodwork for all the hormones.

Step 4: Rinse & repeat Step 3 to continue monitoring your hormone levels.

[awms]

I get blood work done atleast once a year...I pay a shit load in taxes!! and never use our health care system so the least my doc can do is give me a blood test! lol Just go in and tell you doc what you want tested and if he asks why I would just tell him the truth. He will prob give you a speech about how dumb you are ect ect but at the end of the day he has to worry about your health and will get blood work done.

[awms]

I once went to a walk in and had a female doctor...told her what I was using and she said "Why would you do that?" I told her and she didnt seem to look to worried she was really cool and did a full check up on me, super nice! My only family doc who is a male was not as cool as this doc! You would be suprised at how cool some doctors can be if they know their stuff.

[weezer]

Awesome,thanks alot for the help Windex,I am on a cycle right now and all going good so far so I'm not worried about getting my hormones checked until after my pct but i would like to get my lipids creatinine,blood panels done just to see how it affects my body( first cycle). So I should be able to just ask to have these checked. I will have to think up a good reason when i go after my pct for my hormone/test levels checked out. once again thanks for the good explantion.