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Do you guys only require a at home test? What about other stuff like lipids ? I have a blood panel from last week. Could you take that for step 1?
AlphaMD's Answer
Yes, we personally take at-home tests & send them out ourselves when needed.
Extra markers like lipids are not as important when starting TRT as they would be if you encountered a side effect down the road.
More data is always better so you can compare it to things in the future, but that has a limit & needs to be balanced with initial costs for men to not gatekeep them behind excess testing.
We take labs from outside facilities, a week old panel would be just fine assuming it at least has Total Testosterone.
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