[rachel-rache]

Bobowo.

It sounds like your doctor was erring on the side of caution, especially since this was your first visit with her and the intention of the appointment was to conduct a physical exam. Without knowing more about your health and circumstances, I think it's a matter of due diligence for a doctor to be reluctant to write a prescription or order non-routine tests.

Maybe if you told her you were concerned about the possibility of testosterone elevating your stress levels and/or risk of heart disease, you might have made more progress with her.

I think talking with the psychologist may be an excellent way for you to broach the topic of getting HRT through a doctor.

Yeah I brought up specifically about how I think there's a chance that lowering T may help with stress and anxiety, but I think she sort of just smiled at the idea and reiterated that usually you prescribe things to elevated T (e.g. for erectile dysfunction).

I just spoke with the psychologist and didn't end up talking about any type of medication and the talk was very behavior oriented. I was talking about anxiety in general. I also don't want full-on HRT because I still want to be able to present myself as a male (lol not that it would be difficult to), and I don't want to lose my ability to have my own kids. It was also the last appointment of the day so I didn't want to drag anything out, so I just sent her a message of what she thinks about lowering T