This could be a problem for some people....

[methos0123]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/health/testosterone-drugs-fda.html?_r=0

 

[methos0123]

Here is another article of uneducated Doctors...endocrinologists are the experts???? Give me a break!

http://www.webmd.com/men/news/20140916/fda-to-probe-testosterone-therapy-claims-safety

 

[bshank]

"Yadegar added that the earlier studies relied on blood tests for testosterone, which some research has shown are less accurate than saliva tests for the male hormone."

I thought it was the other way around?

 

[methos0123]

"Yadegar added that the earlier studies relied on blood tests for testosterone, which some research has shown are less accurate than saliva tests for the male hormone."

I thought it was the other way around?

I think I've heard that saliva is better if you use skin applied test. Not sure if that's true though.

 

[Megatron28]

I guess I need to start stockpiling.

 

[methos0123]

I guess I need to start stockpiling.

I think guys that have been diagnosed according to guidelines by the AACE are going to be ok.

I hope anyway!

 

[Megatron28]

Docs are often already squeemish about prescribing test. Just another reason to not write a script for someone who is hypogonadal.

 

[jozifp103]

so what if you're already on trt....will they pull you off?

 

[methos0123]

so what if you're already on trt....will they pull you off?

If you don't "need" it. That's what it sounds like to me...

 

[jozifp103]

that's absurd....even if you didn't need it, after being on it for a year and coming off....you're gonna need it.

 

[TRTnooby]

20 Doctors vs All the money to be made by drug companies selling aging men the fountain of youth. Who ya got?

My money is on the drug companies. There may be some warning letters sent, some tweaks to marketing, crack downs on some token clinicians, but the revenue stream of 2 million men on testosterone is not going anywhere.

 

[juced_porkchop]

20 Doctors vs All the money to be made by drug companies selling aging men the fountain of youth. Who ya got?

My money is on the drug companies. There may be some warning letters sent, some tweaks to marketing, crack downs on some token clinicians, but the revenue stream of 2 million men on testosterone is not going anywhere.

unless its to new drugs they want to push for hrt........ but i hope not