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Hormone therapy to deal with chronic fatigue - good doctor in the West?

  • 06-01-2015 11:37pm
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    So I've been experiencing chronic fatigue for years.

    I've gone through the mill in terms of anti-depressant medications, anti-anxieties, talk therapy, a host of different diagnosis.

    Then, I'm posting here a little while ago, and a poster recommends I listen to a Dr Mark Gordon,

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbxPxFiOIKc

    who talks about how hormone deficiency brought about by head trauma can lead to these types of symptoms that are associated with depression, such as energy loss, anxiety, insomnia, prone to irrational anger etc.

    Thus, the treatment being, hormone replacement therapy.

    Only, I went to my local hospital yesterday, and they point blank refused to do a testosterone level check.

    From other posters, I'm seeing this is a trend, in that this type of therapy is not particularly well known yet, so it seems a lot of doctors are loath to prescribe it.

    What I'm wondering is, is anyone familiar with a doctor in Ireland, preferably in the west (but I will travel if I have to), that is competent in prescribing hormone replacement therapy.

    Like the dude in the video, I've been through the mill with all the other treatments, and as with him, they yielded absolutely no positive outcome.

    I'm keen to try this, or at the very least get me hormone levels checked.

    I understand they should be at about 600ng/dl
    Can be as low as 300, as high as 900, but that's the range generally.


    So if anyone can recommend me a doctor, via pm or otherwise, that'd be appreciated.


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