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
