Wondering about Blood Work. What are the costs?

[innerg]

Hi. so I'm wondering about getting Blood work done.

What is the cost of this?
How often should I do it?
Where do I find a place that Understands what I'm after?

My stats. I am 30yo about 250 pounds 6ft tall

I have gyno from past cycles I was 23-25 ( I was a idiot and did not know better)

I'm now taking about 3-4 units of HGH a night (about a month now)



my goals are to start lifting hard again and get back on test and dbol (a beginners stack )BUT im taking that slow tell i am ready.

what I really getting at here is that I want to start the blood work stuff early and be aware. Im in Utah if any one knows good ways here. Im new to the blood work all together.


thanks in advance

[optionsdude]

There are some online bloodwork testing companies out there. You tell them what kind of test you want and there are lots to choose from and they schedule an appt. for you. As to what tests you need someone will chime in with the exact ones soon.

[zaggahamma]

http://www.directlabs.com/

theres one and do a search I JUST POSTED 3 in all ...you can get labwork done without rx...

search or look in hrt forum for title between rock and a hard place

[zaggahamma]

f it...here u go...

http://forums.steroid.com/showthread...d-a-Hard-Place

[zaggahamma]

thats it though....no more mr nice guy

[burndawg]

How often is a doc wanting blood work? I have had 3time since starting about 3the months ago and he wants another within a week? Om just afraid the cost will not be cover and im stuck with bs bills.

[lovbyts]

For some reasons Clilncs like to do a lot of them. When I started HRT I went through a clinic for the first year then changed to an Endo. The clinic had me do about 6 test during the year. The doctor at the Endo said OMG to many and wrote me a prescription for 6 months.

[GotNoBlueMilk]

My clinic did baseline, 3 months later, every 6 months after that. Some clinics are respectable and some should be shutdown, especially the ones that sell and markup the scripts.

Ok, maybe most should be shutdown but most docs are clueless about HRT so we really are in a tough place.

[Far from massive]

Just playing devils advocate here,

They all gotta pay the rent... so some sell extra bloodwork, others insist you use their compounding pharmacy, others just charge an arm and a leg for the office visits. Personally I would rather have some extra bloodwork done than pay extra for generic test, at least with the bloodwork you get to better regulate the dosage based on your bodies response.

In all seriousness though in the beginning frequent bloodwork is advisable (to a point of course) to tailor dosage to outcome, once the body has stabilized and the dosage is established then its should not be needed frequently at all.