Surgery While on TRT?

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When it comes to advice pre, during, and post-surgery, heed the advice of your surgeon. They, not other specialties, know the in’s and out’s of peri-operative medicine and physiology better than anyone.

If the advice does not make sense, ask your surgeon to explain why. There may be things you or the other doctors are not considering. You are the customer, you have paid for and might as well listen to their reasoning.

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… And then report back here what they said.

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Those GP’s can’t say that about me, I want less because less is more for me. High doses didn’t do diddly squat for me, like injecting water.

These extremely small doses turned me into a hyper TRT responder.

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You aren’t a typical case. I think we all can agree on that at least.

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I just hope my endo doesn’t model my experience and apply it to other suspecting men! He doesn’t have a lot of patients on TRT.

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Ye, if they prescribe 50mg of course patients will want more…

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I don’t think they can say that about anyone, outside the obvious below. The testosterone addiction gene must be recessive and skipped you.

For sure, I wonder how often that happens.

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I bet a lot, or 200mg once per month even better :smiley:

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I see your point.

I’m still going to (politely) argue my side of it, but I suppose just fighting it to the end will probably create more of an issue (and push her more to keep me off TRT afterwards).

Last thing I want is a TT of like 400 and an endo telling me no more TRT

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Lol when I told her I’m on 150mg/week she thought I said per day

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WTF haha

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They can’t do any of that, you’ve been diagnosed with low testosterone and withholding treatment isn’t in the cards.

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Haha. I wouldn’t be so sure of that.

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Me either. They are morons

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Medications are routinely restricted before and after surgery. Blood thinners come to mind, I think some antipsychotics and I’m sure many others that can have an adverse reactions with drugs or procedures that may come up during the operation. They want to simplify their decision matrix as much as possible especially if things go sideways.

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@bigmistake2
Pain meds are often over prescribed but I think you’re crazy not to take advantage of them where their use is actually warranted.

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I understand restricting medicines, but testosterone is a hormone and shouldn’t be consider medicine because the body doesn’t treat it as if it were medicine, the body is fooled into thinking its the real mccoy.

Medicines that sedate should be stopped, blood thinners is a no brainer.

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My reasons:

  • Long story short, my dad died when I was young from a pain killer related incident
  • I find kratom way too nice, and I terrified of how hospital grade opiates would feel
  • I hate the whole opiate epidemic, really something I think is destroying the US
  • Recovery is better without them, and there are alternatives. Allegedly things like ketorolac and ketamine (unrelated to each other) can be used and they’re extremely effective
  • On the note of alternatives, not to be a hero, but I’d like to walk away and be able to one day tell people about such alternatives and hopefully see one less person end up hooked on opiates

Ironically I woke up the other day with some horrible pain after realizing I was dehydrated earlier. My stepdad used to get kidney stones, and my mind went right to that. Was in the bathroom forever, like holy shit this is so painful I’d do anything to make it stop. Turned out I was constipated lol

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I’ll see what they say - have to meet a different endo (for a different surgeon) soon.

If I end up going with the other one, I’m going to discuss this matter with her and the surgeon and state my side of it and see what they think.

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Remember what I said about people with the highest testosterone recover faster than anyone else and got out of the hospital sooner. You don’t see men with naturally high testosterone being given a pill to suppress testosterone because they’re afraid of blood clots during surgery.

Two words, double standards.