Best Place for Hormone testing

[enzymus]

I was looking for a place to run a blood panel, without visiting the doc. Anyone know of a good place to for online blood tests? Obviously I have to get blood drawn and mail it in, but I was wondering if there was cheap place to go online.

The following is a back story, if that's needed for advice:


I was out of the gym for about a year with a shoulder injury. I just started back up about 6 months ago and decided to run a mild/anabolic stack consisting of:

Test-e 200mg/week
Primo 200mg/week
Anavar 50mg/day

I had horrible sex drive the entire cycle, which I assume could be attributed to not having enough androgens. I was hoping the test would be enough to counter the other products. I had a blood test, from my main doctor complaining about the sexual dysfunction issue. My total test was over 1000. He didn't test my free test despite my asking him to(maybe he forgot to mark it) so I don't know what that was.

Now I am doing PCT including:

Weeks
1 HCG 2500 IU's (Mon/Thurs)
2 HCG 2500 IU's (Mon/Fri)
3 HCG 2500 IU's (Tues)
4 Clomid 100mg/day
5 Clomid 100mg/day
6 Arimidex 1mg EOD
7 Arimidex 1mg EOD
8 Arimidex 1mg EOD
9 Arimidex 1mg EOD
10 Arimidex 1mg EOD

I am at the end of week 5 and still crashing. I have always rebounded quite well int he past. This time around something is quite different. Anyway I was interested in getting more testing, done, but I figured I would pay for it myself and forget dealing with the doctors and insurance. They hardly covered my tests anyway. Where is the best online place to get a hormone panel for cheap? I have thought about using Life Extensions, found here: Male Hormone Re-Test Profile Blood Test .

 

[stevesmi]

privatemdlabs.com

i don't understand your PCT at all.. why all those weeks of adex? your estrogen levels should be well taken care of with that crazy dose of clomid you are running (if you insist on clomid run no more than 25mg a day, 100 a day is way too much) .. no reason for adex, thats pure overkill. swap the adex for a natty test booster instead.

also that is way too much hcg. drop it down to 1000iu's per shot.. 2500iu is nuts. or you can go with HMG and run 2 or 3 hits of it and save yourself a lot of headache

 

[enzymus]

privatemdlabs.com

i don't understand your PCT at all.. why all those weeks of adex? your estrogen levels should be well taken care of with that crazy dose of clomid you are running (if you insist on clomid run no more than 25mg a day, 100 a day is way too much) .. no reason for adex, thats pure overkill. swap the adex for a natty test booster instead.

also that is way too much hcg. drop it down to 1000iu's per shot.. 2500iu is nuts. or you can go with HMG and run 2 or 3 hits of it and save yourself a lot of headache

This particular PCT was published in Muscular Development Magazine a few years ago. This is the first time, I used a full PCT. I previously only jump-started with HCG after for a couple weeks and was fine. So I am open to the PCT options. Clomid and the HCG are both estrogen's, so I suppose the adex is to clear that out after its no longer needed. Other than that I cannot say, why they chose to run so much.

BTW I visited the privatemdlabs.com. I guess I need to hand pick the tests to be taken. The other website had a full panel for males. Can you suggest what tests to run?

 

[eddymerckx]

Progesterone
Prolactin
FSH and LH
Total Testosterone, Highly Sensitve
Sex Hormone Binding Globulin
Glucose, Serum
C-Reactive Protein
Lipid Panel with LDL/HDL Ratio
Metabolic Panel
Liver Function


I use www.personalabs.com--testing is done by Lab Corp. and they have specific panels which are cost effective. But they said 2 days and it tool 5 (another time 4 days) but that's my only complaint.

 

[enzymus]

Bump

 

[stevesmi]

This particular PCT was published in Muscular Development Magazine a few years ago. This is the first time, I used a full PCT. I previously only jump-started with HCG after for a couple weeks and was fine. So I am open to the PCT options. Clomid and the HCG are both estrogen's, so I suppose the adex is to clear that out after its no longer needed. Other than that I cannot say, why they chose to run so much.

BTW I visited the privatemdlabs.com. I guess I need to hand pick the tests to be taken. The other website had a full panel for males. Can you suggest what tests to run?

get the female hormone panel for 50 bucks.

clomid also serves as an anti-estrogen so more adex is pointless. if that is the reasoning for running so much adex then that magazine you go that advice from is stupid. actually the real reason they want you to run the adex is to cripple your estrogen levels cause in theory that will allow your test levels to rebound. however that seems pretty silly to run THAT much for THAT long. the modern cycle we control estrogen while ON cycle, we don't wait till after cycle to bring it down. we run forma and hcgenerate during the cycle. you get estrogen controlled PLUS you get your nuts staying plump, then when you go into pct you are ready to rebound quicker and easier.

and hcg doesn't need to be run at some huge doses. just as effective at lower doses

 

[enzymus]

I'm not particularly a fan of HCGenerate. The main ingredient the manufacturer is touting is Fadogia Agrestis at 1000mg per 5 capsules. That's only 200mg of Fadogia Agrestis per cap.The only other ingredients are Zinc, Vitamin E and Fenugreek. For $73 you sure aren't getting much of anything in each capsule. My buddy got me a bottle of the stuff a while back. I ran it as directed on a nice test stack. It had really no effect on saving my raisins from shrinking. I did however use iForce Nutrition's Fadogia product this last cycle. This product gave me occasional morning wood, but didn't protect my nuts to any degree. It has 500mg (almost 3x more) of Fadogia per cap and only costs around $25 bucks.

Unless there is something special about HCGenerates formula (in particular) it didn't work for me and really doesn't look all that good on paper. I also used Post Cycle and Unleashed from PF. Have to say these didn't do much either.

 

[Nelson Montana]

Another Clomid catastrophe. When will it all end?

 

[enzymus]

Another Clomid catastrophe. When will it all end?

My issues began long before the Clomid was introduced my friend. I would agree that it may have added insult to injury though. Kudos to those of you who can successively use dietary supplements to protect themselves on a cycle and even use as part of their PCT. I unfortunately didn't respond well to recovery this time around despite having all of the necessary PCT at my disposal.

 

[ALIN]

I know some guys doing the saliva testing. It gives a good general idea on where your at a cheap price.
It would be better than nothing. I do prefer bloodwork but would use this as alternate.