Same here then when I went to the VA the doc there stopped it. If you're over 40 quit the T shots.
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[QUOTE=parabrave;1530176]Same here then when I went to the VA the doc there stopped it.
Why? I'm 56 and thinking about gettin my T checked.
Yes. The finger is no fun. A simple blood test that most any Dr./clinic can perform. Check your PSA numbers which tells you if your prostate is range for more testing or just benign enlargement. If your PSA numbers are high your Dr./clinic should schedule you to see a urologist for further evaluation. Don?t screw around with it. I?ve lost two friends to prostate cancer. They kept putting off dealing with it and their cancerous prostate metastasized or spread to other areas and that?s what killed them.
Average risk, no family history: get a colonoscopy at 45.
Prostate check/PSA without family history: typically not until your 50s.
Testosterone injections/replacement is 95% of the time a complete scam, but they know how to hit you down low with advertisement. Would highly recommend against it for a number of reasons, one of which is increased risk of prostate cancer.
I am assuming you have some facts to back up the 95% scam? Or I guess I am in the 5%?
I can't speak for your specific situation, but there is a ton of information regarding the huge amount of inappropriate prescribing due to direct to consumer advertising in the last 15 years. The expert guidelines say only patients that have true symptoms due to low T and a low T level on THREE separate occasions measured between 8AM and 10AM should be considered for replacement. That almost never happens in even responsible practices. Places branded as "low T centers" are prescribing without truly low levels and pumping the level up to well above the recommended range. A lot of times without regards to other health issues the patient may have that can be made worse. Its really bad medicine at most of those places. Also younger patients that are truly low really need a more expanded work up into why instead of just being given T. Also rarely happens in practice.
95% was just a random number admittedly, but there is a ton of scam out there
A buddy of mine had been on "hormone replacement therapy" for a few years. He's extremely healthy and works out religiously. He had a major stroke and they are blaming the injections.
I was definitely going to start taking the injections until I was diagnosed with cancer. Then I learned a ton about testosterone and prostate cancer.
I had nearly the exact same thing happen over a five or six year period. I changed my diet to get more fiber in it and now I don't get polyps anymore. Took about ten years to see the difference, so people need to be patient. Well worth it in the long run though.
My colonoscopy is scheduled for 10 Oct in Flowood. That's the soonest opening.