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Need help with pre-TRT blood-work
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Before anyone goes off on how I need to read the stickies, I would like to let you know that I DID read them...as well as many other posts on here. But honestly, there isn't a single, simple, thread which outlines which blood tests are mandatory pre-TRT.
Yes there are threads that explain what each test means, such ask the "blood work article" sticky, but no sticky which simply lists the "necessary" pre-TRT bloodwork.
If such sticky or thread does exist then it is buried so deep that it requires a team of librarians to find it.
Considering how important blood work is, it should be among the top stickies...titled clearly.
Anyway...could any of you TRT gurus be kind enough to simply just list the numbers of the tests that are not required pre-TRT?
I've numbered the tests for your convenience so all you have to do is just list the numbers that correspond to tests that one does not have to do pre-TRT...or to find out if that persons needs TRT or not.
Now I would like to point out that I really wouldn't mind doing all the tests on the list above as obviously that would yield more good than harm. I even excitedly took the list to the lab to do them ...that's until they showed me the total price of the tests. Waaaaay over my budget!
So now I would like to know which ones I can safely eliminate from the list.
Thanks a whole bunch in advance!