How honest are you with your Primary Care Doc?

[GuyFawkes]

I'm not sure if this question belongs in this forum or not, but I'll give it a go. Title says it all. I'm getting a new doctor and I'm in the middle of my first cycle. If he wants to run bloods on me or something as part of my "welcome aboard" appointment, should I just delay? Probably an obvious answer there, but I'm curious if anyone here's been straight up with their doc and what the results were.

[djgreen]

most likely if you tell him you are injecting illegal street drugs in your body he will refuse to see you and will mark it down on your records for your insurance and future doctors to see so I would say no don't tell him a thing I have heard of some docs being cool with it but most of them are not

[Nine91]

Where are you from? I'm in Canada and I am truthful to the doc. She doesn't agree with it and advises against it, but she knows and co-operates with bloodwork and stuff okay

[frank13]

Don't do that and it's very easy to order your own blood work for yourself if you're curious also most docs aren't going to run a hormone panel more then likely it will be some standard blood work to check your overall health

[Player1]

If it comes down to something that is threatening your health you could always just say you tried some new test booster PH from GNC or something, they don't know what's in those and would probably think you just fell victim to some "shady product". Other than that I wouldn't say anything about it. I hear in countries other than USA it's a bit more tolerated.

[tice1212]

I'm not sure if this question belongs in this forum or not, but I'll give it a go. Title says it all. I'm getting a new doctor and I'm in the middle of my first cycle. If he wants to run bloods on me or something as part of my "welcome aboard" appointment, should I just delay? Probably an obvious answer there, but I'm curious if anyone here's been straight up with their doc and what the results were.

Tell him that ur on a pro hormones if u get ur bloods done and they r out of whack

[Officer Doofy]

Tell him that ur on a pro hormones if u get ur bloods done and they r out of whack

HAHA that's a good idea.

[qscgugcsq]

As said above, if you are in canada there is not much issue other than him refusing to cooperate with you.

However in the USA its more.complicated and you should not tell him.directly.
After a few years if you got a good.relationship with him and he his open minded, you can consider telling him. Otherwise I would not.

[GuyFawkes]

Where are you from? I'm in Canada and I am truthful to the doc. She doesn't agree with it and advises against it, but she knows and co-operates with bloodwork and stuff okay

I'm in the States. I don't plan on divulging anything unless I feel my life's in danger or it's something along those lines. I'm 42, so I've had docs that are both totally understanding or judgmental - the spectrum varies wildly. I was just curious what you all have experienced.

[GuyFawkes]

If it comes down to something that is threatening your health you could always just say you tried some new test booster PH from GNC or something, they don't know what's in those and would probably think you just fell victim to some "shady product". Other than that I wouldn't say anything about it. I hear in countries other than USA it's a bit more tolerated.

Yeah this is what I'll do. Was thinking along these lines already. thx

[Frontpump]

not much to add to this except that 100% of medical doctors in the US come from a very structured and "in the box" approach to human studies. That box is not fond of steroids for a lot of reasons, and they're never given a point of view that supports steroids either.

Just from my med school friends, run ins at the med parties, doctors I've had...most people practicing primary care are taught steroids are bad mmkay and there's nothing else to it.

I had ONE physical therapist who would openly discuss roids and peptides with me- he was the best. Yet he couldn't prescribe or do bloodwork.

You get lucky sometimes. Stray heavily on the side of "don't even suggest it".

[GuyFawkes]

not much to add to this except that 100% of medical doctors in the US come from a very structured and "in the box" approach to human studies. That box is not fond of steroids for a lot of reasons, and they're never given a point of view that supports steroids either.

Just from my med school friends, run ins at the med parties, doctors I've had...most people practicing primary care are taught steroids are bad mmkay and there's nothing else to it.

I had ONE physical therapist who would openly discuss roids and peptides with me- he was the best. Yet he couldn't prescribe or do bloodwork.

You get lucky sometimes. Stray heavily on the side of "don't even suggest it".

Agree 100%. It's kind of a shame there aren't more doctors willing to get outside that box and look around. Of course when their license is on the line and they paid hundreds of thousands to get there, I can't say I blame them.

[212OlympiaBound]

I deny it.

So far, all the doctors i've seen don't check hormones affected by AAS on a generic blood test. The only thing that might tip somebody off from a blood test is my HDL always shows up as 0.

[Frontpump]

Agree 100%. It's kind of a shame there aren't more doctors willing to get outside that box and look around. Of course when their license is on the line and they paid hundreds of thousands to get there, I can't say I blame them.

You nailed the issue squarely. Why risk the cost of med school, years of torturous study, and millions in future income? That license is pretty damn valuable.

[Ashop]

I'm not sure if this question belongs in this forum or not, but I'll give it a go. Title says it all. I'm getting a new doctor and I'm in the middle of my first cycle. If he wants to run bloods on me or something as part of my "welcome aboard" appointment, should I just delay? Probably an obvious answer there, but I'm curious if anyone here's been straight up with their doc and what the results were.

My advice is to be careful what you say to your doctor. You can be fairly open but some things are better left quiet. Obviously if its a serious condition that could change things.
Doctors chart things and Ive seen some have problems with insurance issues when they have said too much.