saw the endo that is affiliated with my primary care doc. He wentt o a top rated american medical school, is young, is a male.....yeah
called them up ahead of time to make sure he treats young men with low t.....yup
I get there and they said 2 nurses in, then a medical student, and finally the doctor came in trying to get me to visit with him and 2 more medical students. I said i just wanted to talk to him....no harm....
so he spent a long time with me..was a nice guy..but he was clueless. he didnt know anything about hcg..and told me he's not a reproductive endocronologist...wtf?
He told me he doesnt monitor estrogen because too low of estrogen means you're a man, and too high is only a concern for bodybuilders..........
told me aromatase inhibs are not proven safe because there are no long term studies.
Told me he doesnt think testosterone is my issue and i should find out what's wrong. I said to him, that's why im there, and i wanted him to check my thyroid pituitary, etc. He claimed my past bloodwork was fine, and tsh is good enough for thyroid, and the new endocrine range for tsh being no more than 3 is only expert opinion without evidence. Said my numbers were beautiful and noone has a tsh of over 4 usually..so 3 might be too low.
wouldnt order me any bloodwork...oh well, i gave him the benefit of the doubt. I asked him what about a cortisol test, what abbot reverse t3..he kept telling me how inaccurate all blood work is and that even if something is wrong, all it does is show that i am sick, but it wont tell me what's wrong. He said reverse t3 shows im sick but doesnt mean my thyroid is bad...just that i have an underlying illness. He said this about everything...said the results are reflective of illness, not just common sense pathologies like adrenals.
he said there was no benefit to doing testosterone and oly harm..and that patients of his in the upper 200s or 300s show no improvement.
no shit..u dont give hcg or monitor estradiol