First Bloods, Unexpected Results

[Gallowmere]

And what did your doctor say?

Don’t have one. Pulled labs through PMDL.

I’ve avoided the medical community like the plague since I was a teenager. Call it a suspicion of motive, given that my mom spent years with doctors and kept getting run through a milieu of drugs that did nothing for her health issues when all she really needed to do was unfuck her diet and stop sitting on her ass. Heh.

[Baxter35]

Don’t have one. Pulled labs through PMDL.

I’ve avoided the medical community like the plague since I was a teenager. Call it a suspicion of motive, given that my mom spent years with doctors and kept getting run through a milieu of drugs that did nothing for her health issues when all she really needed to do was unfuck her diet and stop sitting on her ass. Heh.

Well you’re way ahead of most by not just blindly trusting whatever the medical community tells you! Medicine has its place, but I think it’s very wise to self educate and use that in combination with medical advice. If subsequent testing confirms your T levels are really that low I would strongly suggest seeking treatment. Low T can have health consequences beyond how you feel (and like you said, maybe you just don’t know how bad you feel). I think I was in that boat when I was first diagnosed, not realizing until I started getting my hormones straightened out how much better I felt.

[Gallowmere]

Well you’re way ahead of most by not just blindly trusting whatever the medical community tells you! Medicine has its place, but I think it’s very wise to self educate and use that in combination with medical advice. If subsequent testing confirms your T levels are really that low I would strongly suggest seeking treatment. Low T can have health consequences beyond how you feel (and like you said, maybe you just don’t know how bad you feel). I think I was in that boat when I was first diagnosed, not realizing until I started getting my hormones straightened out how much better I felt.

That’s my current plan. I’ll be making some calls to some urologists tomorrow. However, given that I don’t carry insurance, I’m not interested in getting jerked around for several hundred dollars in out of pocket fees.

I’m the kind of person that, if I smell bullshit, I’m far more inclined to handle things myself.