hahaha, I'm in Spain, my friend. The blood test normally are paid by our national state service (very useful). My endo only prescribes me 1 blood test per year and only hemogram, liver enzymes, total testosterone. Never controled my ferritin because he never prescribed me a blood donation although my HCT is between 50-52% (sometimes 54%). He doesn't paid too much attention of it. Never looked free testosterone, never SHBG, never E2. Definitely, he only prescribes me cypionate 250 mg eag 15 days. It's true that only with it I feel very good and it seems I don't need much more controles. If I want a more close controle I need to pay the blood test by my own.
It has been in this forum where I have learned how to distribute 250 mg cypionate in 3.5EO. It works much better and it avoids roller-coaster effect.
Now, I'm studying by my account (mainly in this forum) about how to controle HCT and its problems with ferritin. My endo doesn't know anything about angiotensin receptor blockers and its influence on erythropoiesis. I suspect that he doesn't know how to use AI's to controle estrogens and in fact this is not used in our national health service for men.
I'm also learning by my account how to distribute injections frequency according SHBG values. Or how to use DHEA.
Definitively, if you want a more exhaustive control you need to pay a private endocrinologist to tell him about all of these little and very useful things we talk about in this forum.
Endocrinology is a difficult and expensive topic if someone wants to tune all the parameters in its optimal range. That's why I love this forum.
