Doctors

Walking into your GP with a clean record

What to bring to a doctor's appointment about TRT, how to lay it out, and why a two-page export beats a folder of PDFs.

Updated 2026-09-26 · Part of the Magno guides

Doctors have ten minutes and a screen that shows one result at a time. If you turn up with a phone full of screenshots, the ten minutes go on scrolling. If you turn up with two pages that show the trend, the ten minutes go on the decision.

What a good record contains

• Doses. Compound, dose, frequency, ester, and any change with the date it happened. This is the part most people cannot reconstruct from memory.
• Blood pressure. A seven-day average at rest beats the single reading taken in the surgery after a walk from the car park.
• Every blood marker on one line. Value, lab range, date, and the change since the previous draw. Testosterone, estradiol, hematocrit and lipids first, since those decide the protocol.
• Weight. The trend, not the daily noise.
• What you noticed. Two lines about sleep, mood, libido or joints since the last dose change. Symptoms are half the picture and the half only you can supply.

What to leave out

Forum theories, supplement lists longer than three items, and any result from a different lab with a different unit sitting next to the current one. Convert or leave it out.

How to lay it out

Page one: the current protocol, blood pressure average, and the four markers that matter with their trend. Page two: the full marker table by panel, newest draw first. A doctor can read that in two minutes and spend the rest on you.

Doing it in Magno

Open Export, pick a date range and what to include, and share a PDF or a CSV. Doses, blood pressure, weight, symptoms and every lab marker come out in that order, with ranges kept and units unchanged. It is the same record you read yourself, laid out for someone who has ten minutes.

Before the appointment

Draw at trough a week before, so the results are in. Write down the one decision you want made: dose, frequency, a referral, a donation letter. Doctors respond to a clear question backed by a clean trend far better than to a worry backed by a folder.