Get labs draw every year? Do you mean full bloods done?
I think its wrong that us blokes are made to feel like freaks if we even suggest that a hormone replacment may be needed. Like i said before, for a woman to walk in and ask for therapy is no biggy or even a female that wants to become a man can walk in have a bit of counseling and get onto a sustained treatment of test just to make her a man because she thinks she was a man born into a females body??? What about the guys that grew to giant stature with no muscle mass and got a hard time because they "got dirt kicked in their face" and now want to maintain a healthy life of working out to encourage their own self confidence and mental well being?? is that not good enough because the general public and skinny politician is intimidated by it??
Sorry for the rant its just a subject that really gets me going sometimes..
Not always... I have been trying to get my mothers health on track as of late. (you know you cant be aprophet in your own home) However i sent her to the local GP clinic with a referal letter to have a few things investigated. Suprise suprise she left being told that he could give her anti depressants to boost her mood and a drug to stop her sweats (peri menopause).
Now... Of course lets not look for problems lets just pop out SSRI's like candy. This seems to be the professional medical model when any sort of "down" mood is experienced. Lets not look at the facts and try to draw a conclusion based on symptoms and sugest appropriate tests. I myself have come to the conclusion after many many various GP's professionals and the health "care" system in general, unless you are near death then no one really cares.
To cut a long story short i ordered my own labs for my mother suprise suprise hormone problems and hypothyroidism... Now if someone bothered to listen to actual symptoms then investigate the problem rather then asuming any person who isnt happen needs brain receptor modulating.
Its insane... I experience it myself, go in to speak about my gut problerms (i have tests regarding this) i am told to relax and its all in my head. 1 Dr even told me i didnt have a hormone problem (e2 was above range test was under).
In regards to the other point. People have been brianwashed by our current way of life, we are pushed and pushed to go on drugs we need drugs for all of lifers problems, pain drugs, cough drugs... Performance enhancement? No drugs will kill you? No one seems to be able to see the logic here...For 1 simple reason there isnt any. No i agree that it is not 100% safe but the benefit to risk ratios is almost non existant when not abused. Infact low levels of hormones cause more damage then a bit more then normal... So as you can see it makes no logical sense.
This isnt like snorting coke and flooding the brain with dopamine downregulating dopamine receptors fucking with brain function. I agree drugs ar enot good and we need to eliminate them as best we can from kids ,teens young adults as I am someone who believes we should have optimal performance from our bodies not run it into the ground. Some people might think that is biased because steroids are drugs and bad. Well nothing is further from the truth. Steroids are natural aoccuring substances designed for a purpose and when not abused can be used very safley with little ot no side effects, just check the medical literature. The "risks" are simply not there and this is with uneducated dosaging of upwards of 800mg testosteorne a week with no aromatase inhibtor or anyway to combat oestradiol. (the main problem with "abuse" and cause of problems).
Sorry i went on a bit of a rant there. I just think every man and woman should have the right to check for problems and implement a strategy to rectify it if there is one.
