Taking my life back

[brymoore]

I think a big part of that is the justification they have to do with insurance.

Maybe insurance. I don’t think T is on any insurance company radar. It’s cheap from a pharmacy. Doctor visits themselves depend on insurance coverage. I’ve never had a doc say don’t see me because insurance won’t cover.

My perspective, until you find a doctor with a different T perspective, they follow the guidelines. Guidelines for men’s T should roughly be 300-850ish level. If you test low but within the guidelines, they tell you you’re fine. Wanting to be closer to 800 than 300 gets no reaction.

 

[recon6036]

Just curious if any dealing with sleep apnea have tried the at home sleep apnea tests?

When I saw my Dr. about sleep apnea, he had a monitor that attaches to the pad of your index finger sent to my house. I wore the monitor for two nights, which uploaded data to an app on my phone, and then automatically sent the results directly to him. Super easy and I got to sleep in my own bed.

 

[Irrelevant]

I'm lucky that every Dr I've had has taken the time to get to know me, and cares about me, or at least I feel like they care about me. I've attributed part of that to living in small towns. I do believe that when you have to see your patients at BBall practice or the grocery store, it incentivizes them to care. But as someone above said, the few times I've seen a pay-to-play Dr, they've offered the absolute best care.

To be fair to the Dr's out there, think of what they have to go through, and the type of person that could/would get through that process? They're the type of people who've spent their entire life being the smartest kids in the room. That can be something that's difficult to overcome. THey're also human, so they get jaded by experiences, no different than the rest of us, and if you think about the sheer number of idiots they have to deal with... and the constant risk of malpractice (even when they were right). It's a really shitting job, that's hard to consistently do well. But I'm also jaded, some of my really good friends are doctors.

Alway, glad you're feeling better. Feeling shitty sucks. Glad you found a good doctor.

 

[Benfromalbuquerque]

Proactive care is new to medicine (Western only? Idk). Our providers are taught how to fix a problem, like mechanical or psychological, and prevention of these problems is a secondary concern. We ourselves have a hard time objectively reviewing our lifestyles to see what we could change.
I like the offseason fitness related threads here. Giving each other attaboys for walking 10k or losing five pounds, staying in remission, anything really. It’s a great positive feedback loop that amplifies our input to fitness.

 

[OleRedbeard]

As far as the sleep apnea stuff. I had no clue I even had it... chalked being tired all the time even though Im in pretty good shape to just being 42 and working a high stress job. My wife suggested I get a sleep study... long story short after getting used to wearing it I could wake up in the morning with 6-8 hours of sleep and feel like a new man. No more brain fog. No more aches and pains for the most part that were really odd and honestly felt like I was rested. I sort of pay for it during hunting season when I am on the mountain now because I feel not rested as much and find myself waking up through the night gasping in my bag.