At least in the US, GP’s are mostly pharmaceutical reps. If your test is low it’s cheap to treat and they make little on it so their hospital network has no incentive to do it or test. Most don’t know anything about it too, though they also don’t know much about antidepressants other than they’re told to give them to you. I remember one time when I went in, I filled out a questionnaire that asked me if I was happy all the time and I thought “you can’t be happy all the time so I guess not, though I am a generally upbeat person” and she tried to give me Prozac.
Sometimes testing doesn’t help either because docs do fuck all with it. A friend in college thought maybe his test was too low and got it tested. His total T was 175 and 320 and 230 on different tests. He was in his early twenties at the time. The female doc just said he was fine. He was actually below the reference range and she said he was fine.
Another female friend showed me her bloodwork and in her 30’s had 0 Estrogen and had that for years across multiple tests. Nobody ever even brought it up.
