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Thanks for that detailed response Tom. For now you will get your medicine and simply pay cash for it. As long as you continue to receive an Rx. I'm glad to hear that you are receiving competent compassionate care via Medicare and your local health care team. For decades that is exactly what...

Tomtom are you experiencing any stress from your dealings with American "health care"? Any increase in blood pressure or other symptoms like sleep disturbance, weight change? Anyhow I'm glad you are beginning to reach the healthy conclusion that they need you but you don't need them.

Logic has nothing to do with the broken health care / insurance / Big Pharma complex folks. $1,000/month for medicine that cost pennies to make says it all. GREED. Simple arithmetic. It's imploding all around us yet we don't have the backbone to say enough is enough. Our fellow consumers will...

Perfect timing! CFR 137.165 ( wheat flour required to be dusted with folic acid ) can be immediately revised to include a dusting of anastrozole as a rider to the Senate's War on Health Care Act.

Welcome hdbernalp. We're glad you're here. You mention a "private andrologist" , a medic and a doctor who discussed HIV related high SHBG with you. This suggests that you are not in the U.S. Is that correct? What is "normal" serum testosterone? What is your individual optimal serum...

Hi SHBG and tot t 485 with symptoms deserves attention. Where you go from here depends on your insurance status and where you live. Self guided care is an option of last resort. At least a years worth of study is required prior to starting any protocol.

It means I'll continue to be on self-manged care journey attempting to adjust my protocol by symptoms. I've only been able to get labs here and there. Even then the results are delayed or lost. There are plenty of us in this situation. Last winter while in urgent care being treated for...

Disbelief? Not at all. They put on a wonderful performance. They'll have you flying through air with the greatest of ease. It's just that I'd rather be out riding my motor bike then be an unwilling participant on their broken trapeze. Fortunately it's their final act. The big top is coming...

Thank you John. The "reference interval" is listed as 348-1197 ng/dL and is - "based upon a population of adult lean males up to 40 years of age". - results above 1197 are NOT reportable per Circus Central ( perhaps they lied ). - test is not cleared or approved by the FDA -...

[ If the SHBG is low, a man's total testosterone level may look abnormally low even though his bioavailable testosterone level is well within the norm. ] ... Dr. Pallis. http://www.health.harvard.edu/mens-health/testing-your-testosterone-its-tricky Let your treating physician Dr. Calkins...

Thanks Nelson. Yes we know. This thread is about the Lab Circus code for that test which, according to their site and statements from "tech support" does not exist. If you have the actual L-C test code feel free to post it here for the benefit of others.

http://www.questdiagnostics.com/testcenter/BUOrderInfo.action?tc=36170&labCode=AMD

Thanks for your reply John. You may have overlooked the posts above which state that while several LC/MS assays are described on the Lab Circus site none of them have reportable range >1197 either by the description on the site or from the "tech support" people at Circus Central.

Resolved thanks to Quest. Lisa B at Quest was helpful in resolving this. Their test code: 36170 is LC MS MS and reports 1-2000 ng/dL. Red top tube no gel. 7 day stability. Thanks Vince. That is exactly what I did. I then went on line while at the LabCircus draw site. It was the LC MS MS...

Update: 1. DiscountLabs describes a test which will report serum T at levels normally returned as unreportable out of range using standard methodology (immuno fluorescence) 2. Although the test above isdrawn at Labcorp sites, Labcorp states as of this writing that they have no test capable of...

I did call labcorp from the draw site. Huge waste of time. Not to mention the 40 mile drive.

That's the one C.W. Not available from labcorp it seems. I took the doctors lab order in but the lab people were once again confused , unable to do the test. I might try again for labs in a few years. At this point I'm done wasting my time. When I did get a direct free tee test not long ago...

Is there a list of labcorp test numbers on these pages? The labcorp site lists several lc ms ms T tests however I can not find one with range greater than 1197.

For everyone's sake let's quickly move on. Foolhardy to challenge the Syndicate.

If your baseline before HRT was 376 pmol/l free T then it isn't clear why you started this regimen. Posting the ranges for these tests, your blood pressure readings, your age, health history, activity levels will help

Yes, none.

Why not? Use less ethan than he prescribes but be consistent with dosing. You can ramp up later a little at a time as needed.

Search is your friend. https://www.vitamindwiki.com/Reasons+for+low+response+by+vitamin+D+level+in+the+blood A scholarly search will lead you to the studies. A long time ago the U.S. gov had a campaign to "inform" the public about green monkeys and people who attended a convention in Haiti...

Read my posts and review at my labs or research this further.

Foods providing up to 3 grams / serving of leucine include 100g of parmesan cheese, roasted soybeans, sirloin steak, chicken breast. 100g servings of pork tuna or pumpkin seed yield about 2.5 g of leucine...

Why did you omit hi-lighting the sentence that follows Will? Nonresponders are documented in research as well as clinical settings. The point of the referenced article though is that sun exposure seems to provide benefits not provided by oral supplementation, something I have found to be true...

Vince, Good find! Oral supplementation yields little or no improvement in serum 25-OH-D? Yes its possible and does occur in a tiny minority of individuals such as myself. Extensive sun exposure alone yields no improvement either. Using a chronic skin ailment as an indicator to immune response...

The mountain and mad men have it right. I was hoping someone would post links to the exercises which isolate and strengthen muscles which support the joint for example to compensate for torn ACL, MCL. I worked hard at these in physical therapy. Unbeknownst to me at the time were the endocrine...

Thanks for the reply ERO. Yep. All the expected benefits. The decades I was on gel only near did me in. It's too late to repair all the damage but I'm lucky to have found this site when I did. These last five months presented major hurdles in every area of life. Recent labs reflect that. Social...

ERO, Do you feel your experience is relevant for men who have low SHBG for reasons other than it being a natural state? My low SHBG seems to be protocol, health or lifestyle related rather than a natural state. It is now 10.1L ( 11.0 - 78.0 ) on a steady downward trend from 22.7 since 09/8/15...

Thanks ERO. What was your DHT prior to adding the transdermal?