Originally Posted by
Cylon357
Primary care docs range, when it comes to TRT, fall into 1 of 3 categories:
1 - not quite worthless
2 - worthless
3 - insanely worthless
Most land in 2 or 3. That's just the way it is.
Assuming that the scale for total t has a low end of 250, that would normally be enough to trigger TRT for most PCPs. Free T was always be numerically lower than total T, but free t could still be in range.
The doc ain't wrong, exactly, about needing free t, but that should have been ordered with the total.
Be consistent on timing with blood work. That is, get it at the same time of day. Fasting doesn't matter unless they are testing glucose, and maybe thyroid numbers, but I can't remember for sure on that.