I’m not sure why the mods didn’t approve my post before…Anyways it looks like a company Theranos has come up with new blood tests that are done on site at Walgreens. Cheap as in most prices are $2-$10 for individual tests, and it uses a tiny drop of blood not a vial. The first one is over in Palo Alto, but I suspect its going to be a nationwide roll out soon. Here is the menu of their test prices http://www.theranos.com/test-menu?ref=our_solution. Here is Wired talking about the company This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood | WIRED. Its cheap enough it might be worth a little drive for me to head over there.
This will be absolutely fantastic if becomes widespread and doesn’t have too big of issues. At $15 or less per test, that’d be approachable to even check on mundane things like how different injection methods (sub-q versus im) influence levels, or checking both peak and trough.
Fingers crossed that this stuff becomes successful!
I just checked the prices for testosterone and free test are both $17.50 ea. that is about what my local lab charges
Basic hormone testing is cheaper at lef.org. The only thing that looked interesting to me was the thyroid testing.
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I’m not sure why the mods didn’t approve my post before…Anyways it looks like a company Theranos has come up with new blood tests that are done on site at Walgreens. Cheap as in most prices are $2-$10 for individual tests, and it uses a tiny drop of blood not a vial. The first one is over in Palo Alto, but I suspect its going to be a nationwide roll out soon. Here is the menu of their test prices http://www.theranos.com/test-menu?ref=our_solution. Here is Wired talking about the company This Woman Invented a Way to Run 30 Lab Tests on Only One Drop of Blood | WIRED. Its cheap enough it might be worth a little drive for me to head over there.[/quote]
that’s an interesting article in wired. thanks for posting it.
lef.org charges $75 for free T, total T, dhea and estradiol combined. prices should go on sale in april.
I figure the main advantages will probably be finger prick, you can do one cheap test(nice if you are trying to say dial in estrogen), and supposedly the automation should be more accurate as they say most errors are human ones, but we’ll see if they’ve gotten the kinks out of the system. I’m going to see about heading over there I’ll post my experience if I’m able to use it.
Not very impressed with them, still need a doctors script, they are taking maybe half the normal amount of blood as say health one, and they send the results to your doctor not you. Only advantage is you can pick and choose easier among tests and still get a cheap price. They need to step up their game.
Well that is a bunch of horse shit, she said it’s the same with or without insurance. Who will want to have to go to a Dr if they have no ins, it’s all about control.
What tests did you get done? I heard about this place, and how cheap it was. Wasn’t sure about the process. Any more info on that?