Blood work thoughts?

[kelkel]

True story thy literally JUST happened and is a testament to just how easy it is.

Saw my ortho this morning to review an MRI I had done last Saturday. My L4/5 has been barking and want to get an epidural. We start talking (great dude, known him a while) agrees we’ll try the shot and asks what other symptoms I’m having. Been having the usual (numbness, tingling, distal extremity stuff) and I just tell him I’m cruising on UGL test and Deca and doing my own hormone bloodwork. (Being a post cancer patient) I get routine bloodwork every month…full panel just doesn’t include hormones.

We start chatting about sports, college, pro and Olympic athletes and “doping”. (I played football 1000 years ago at our university) and he tells me about this college kid he’s working with that had been juicing and now is on TRT and how he has to write him a letter to the NCAA. The kid was taking everything he says.

Basically he just says how common it is now and everyone is doing it. Then he states that anyone under 600 total should just go on, also tells me how’s he not a fan of AI’s or clomid, yada yada.

I agree and he turns to me and says “do you just want me to write you a script so you don’t have to order it online anymore? Probably safer”.
Tells me he’ll have to put it in my chart but I can just monitor my bloods and let him know.

Ummmm, HELL YES! Tell him what I was previously RX’d (when I did go to the clinic) and he says “perfect, I’ll send it in”. He wrote for a 10 ML vial with 12 refills dosed at 200 mgs per week. Went to the local pharmacy (where I asked him to send it. Regularly use CVS, but they like to give you the on 1 ML mini vials which blow) and voila, 30 minutes later I’m holding a bottle of Watson test in my hand and with Good RX it was 28$.

My point for sharing is…IT’S THAT EASY these days. You just have to ask or tell them what you want. No way in hell a clinic is telling you NO with numbers that low. Go advocate for yourself.

Good luck

Awesome story. Similar here. My Uro is fantastic. I'm written more than I actually need as he knows I don't like to be micromanaged by pharmacies. Including ancillaries (dex, nolva, caber) and even deca at one time, but insurance weaseled their way out of paying for it somehow. Bloodwork whenever I want, which he gives me scripts to write myself, no shit. It's a trust thing as from day one he knew my knowledge base was high and I would never do anything to violate that trust. He actually calls me for advice when he has problem guys coming in due to abuse. Great relationship.

[almostgone]

True story thy literally JUST happened and is a testament to just how easy it is.

Saw my ortho this morning to review an MRI I had done last Saturday. My L4/5 has been barking and want to get an epidural. We start talking (great dude, known him a while) agrees we’ll try the shot and asks what other symptoms I’m having. Been having the usual (numbness, tingling, distal extremity stuff) and I just tell him I’m cruising on UGL test and Deca and doing my own hormone bloodwork. (Being a post cancer patient) I get routine bloodwork every month…full panel just doesn’t include hormones.

We start chatting about sports, college, pro and Olympic athletes and “doping”. (I played football 1000 years ago at our university) and he tells me about this college kid he’s working with that had been juicing and now is on TRT and how he has to write him a letter to the NCAA. The kid was taking everything he says.

Basically he just says how common it is now and everyone is doing it. Then he states that anyone under 600 total should just go on, also tells me how’s he not a fan of AI’s or clomid, yada yada.

I agree and he turns to me and says “do you just want me to write you a script so you don’t have to order it online anymore? Probably safer”.
Tells me he’ll have to put it in my chart but I can just monitor my bloods and let him know.

Ummmm, HELL YES! Tell him what I was previously RX’d (when I did go to the clinic) and he says “perfect, I’ll send it in”. He wrote for a 10 ML vial with 12 refills dosed at 200 mgs per week. Went to the local pharmacy (where I asked him to send it. Regularly use CVS, but they like to give you the on 1 ML mini vials which blow) and voila, 30 minutes later I’m holding a bottle of Watson test in my hand and with Good RX it was 28$.

My point for sharing is…IT’S THAT EASY these days. You just have to ask or tell them what you want. No way in hell a clinic is telling you NO with numbers that low. Go advocate for yourself.

Good luck

Awesome story. Similar here. My Uro is fantastic. I'm written more than I actually need as he knows I don't like to be micromanaged by pharmacies. Including ancillaries (dex, nolva, caber) and even deca at one time, but insurance weaseled their way out of paying for it somehow. Bloodwork whenever I want, which he gives me scripts to write myself, no shit. It's a trust thing as from day one he knew my knowledge base was high and I would never do anything to violate that trust. He actually calls me for advice when he has problem guys coming in due to abuse. Great relationship.

I've got to get me one of these kinds of docs. I've hit the neurosurgeon up about deca or a little var and so far I've come up empty handed.

He offered a refill of percs for the days I was hurting, but I didn't want them. I'd much rather he cross my palm with a script for some PAR oxandrolone, preferably with refills!

Going to try again next visit. Maybe I should open the conversation with something other than, *Doc, I need something for my mornings and my evenings".

[teedoff]

I've got to get me one of these kinds of docs. I've hit the neurosurgeon up about deca or a little var and so far I've come up empty handed.

He offered a refill of percs for the days I was hurting, but I didn't want them. I'd much rather he cross my palm with a script for some PAR oxandrolone, preferably with refills!

Going to try again next visit. Maybe I should open the conversation with something other than, *Doc, I need something for my mornings and my evenings".

Take a drive to the upper Carolina. My hormone Dr is great. Same boat. He wrote me a script for 200mg a week. So now I have a bumper amount only doing 75mg a week. Pretty sure he'll write scripts for other things. He loves deca personally and keeps mentioning it which gives me the impression he would write a script. As long as it's within the parameters of a needed hormone drug.

[almostgone]

Take a drive to the upper Carolina. My hormone Dr is great. Same boat. He wrote me a script for 200mg a week. So now I have a bumper amount only doing 75mg a week. Pretty sure he'll write scripts for other things. He loves deca personally and keeps mentioning it which gives me the impression he would write a script. As long as it's within the parameters of a needed hormone drug.

I'll keep that in mind. Is it close to Charlotte, Greensboro, Moyock, or Fayetteville? I'm pretty familiar with the drive from out in the sticks to those places.

[teedoff]

I'll keep that in mind. Is it close to Charlotte, Greensboro, Moyock, or Fayetteville? I'm pretty familiar with the drive from out in the sticks to those places.

It's just a few miles from the Greensboro airport, if you're familiar with that.

[almostgone]

It's just a few miles from the Greensboro airport, if you're familiar with that.

Use to make semi-frequent trips to Reidsville when I was younger

[wellshii]

Awesome story. Similar here. My Uro is fantastic. I'm written more than I actually need as he knows I don't like to be micromanaged by pharmacies. Including ancillaries (dex, nolva, caber) and even deca at one time, but insurance weaseled their way out of paying for it somehow. Bloodwork whenever I want, which he gives me scripts to write myself, no shit. It's a trust thing as from day one he knew my knowledge base was high and I would never do anything to violate that trust. He actually calls me for advice when he has problem guys coming in due to abuse. Great relationship.

Wish I could find a doc like you guys.

[Beefcheeks7]

Wish I could find a doc like you guys.

Do you have low test levels? I'm just going to a mens health clinic that take payment from my ppo health plans heath care expense visa. I'm not g2g yet but seems promising.

[wellshii]

Do you have low test levels? I'm just going to a mens health clinic that take payment from my ppo health plans heath care expense visa. I'm not g2g yet but seems promising.

I go through a clinic.
But its cheaper to get it through a doctor.
But doctors arent as generous with the dosage.
This is why I said I wish could find doctors like theirs.lol.

[Beefcheeks7]

I go through a clinic.
But its cheaper to get it through a doctor.
But doctors arent as generous with the dosage.
This is why I said I wish could find doctors like theirs.lol.

If you don't mind me asking what is the protocol they have you on? And are they prescribing hcg or gonadotropin, and what is the total with everything included?

[teedoff]

If you don't mind me asking what is the protocol they have you on? And are they prescribing hcg or gonadotropin, and what is the total with everything included?

You didn't ask me but I'll answer with regards to my hormone clinic. Yes mine will prescribe hcg as well as put ancillaries. I think my initial visit was 150 bucks for the consult. Labs are 50 bucks and each subsequent office check ups and going over labs is also 50.

Pretty sure he'll write scripts for other stuff as well. I know he mentioned var and deca several times.

He started me on 200mg week test c. It was way more than I need, but he left at that so at my current dose of 75mg a week, I have a buffer to play with the dose and I don't run out since my script is for a 10 week supply.

[Beefcheeks7]

You didn't ask me but I'll answer with regards to my hormone clinic. Yes mine will prescribe hcg as well as put ancillaries. I think my initial visit was 150 bucks for the consult. Labs are 50 bucks and each subsequent office check ups and going over labs is also 50.

Pretty sure he'll write scripts for other stuff as well. I know he mentioned var and deca several times.

He started me on 200mg week test c. It was way more than I need, but he left at that so at my current dose of 75mg a week, I have a buffer to play with the dose and I don't run out since my script is for a 10 week supply.

Got it sounds about the same as what my clinic told me I haven't gotten anything from them yet but what about the prescription itself? Is that included in the fees you're talking about?

[wellshii]

If you don't mind me asking what is the protocol they have you on? And are they prescribing hcg or gonadotropin, and what is the total with everything included?

They had me on hcg but pulled it and switched it to gonadorelinn.
They start at 200 a week and go from there .

Prescribe an AI too but I dont take it.
375 for 10 weeks

[Beefcheeks7]

Awesome story. Similar here. My Uro is fantastic. I'm written more than I actually need as he knows I don't like to be micromanaged by pharmacies. Including ancillaries (dex, nolva, caber) and even deca at one time, but insurance weaseled their way out of paying for it somehow. Bloodwork whenever I want, which he gives me scripts to write myself, no shit. It's a trust thing as from day one he knew my knowledge base was high and I would never do anything to violate that trust. He actually calls me for advice when he has problem guys coming in due to abuse. Great relationship.

Your urologist? I was wondering who I would go see about my low T would it be a urologist or an endocrinologist?