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Old Sun, Sep-23-18, 09:45
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Originally Posted by M Levac
Yeah, probably. I've read quite a bit about that for my own purposes while looking for the cause of my problem.

Standard treatment for low testosterone is testosterone injection for the rest of one's life, commonly called HRT. That is, if a doc eventually diagnoses him with that, but at 25yo? No way is that gonna happen. Instead, docs will refer him to a psycho babbler cuz it's all in his head, right?


Knowing what I do now, I am sure his lab tests show plenty of testosterone, and you are totally right about the course of his “treatment.” It’s there, but it’s not getting into his cells and operating the way it should.

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Originally Posted by M Levac
Here's an advice I just thought up about that. If it's obvious the GP can't fix it right there or if there's doubt, and then he refers you to somebody else, don't go any deeper in that system, cuz nobody has any idea how wrong it's gonna go from here. Here's another advice, always always always get a second opinion. It used to be that this second opinion was gotten from another doc. Problem with that in this era is that all docs are trained exactly the same, and draw the same conclusions. There's no possibility of a different diagnosis when any doc is given the exact same information. On the other hand, when that information is incomplete, the possibility of a false diagnosis, or multiple false diagnosis (cuz it's totally possible none of them get it right) goes right up to near 100%. So, in this era, we get this second opinion from the mass of information available to us with a few clicks, and a whole lotta readin and discussin and sharin and some experimentin.


Spot on, and the more deeply one tries to find a “specialist” the more narrow-minded and rigid are the criteria to get treatment. If you don’t match the little template they have in their head of the things they know how to fix: it’s not their problem.
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