Already on therapy? Bring it with you.
If you are being treated somewhere else and you want out, you should not have to start over from zero. Bring your last panel and your current protocol. A physician reads what you already have at no charge, and if therapy is still indicated you continue — on your dose, not a reset.
What we will not do to you.
Because it keeps happeningMake you re-buy a panel you already have
Bloodwork from the last six months is bloodwork. If it covers what your physician needs, we read it and move on. You are not paying twice for the same draw.
Restart you at a beginner dose
If you have been stable on a protocol and your labs support it, continuing at that dose is a clinical decision your physician can make. Nobody is resetting you to week one as a matter of policy.
Charge a fee to release your records
Your panel and your written assessment are yours. If you leave Contin-U later, you take them with you and there is no unlock fee, no exit fee and no penalty.
What to bring.
Four thingsYour most recent bloodwork
A PDF is fine. It needs to be within the last six months and it needs to include total testosterone, hematocrit and estradiol at minimum. If it does not, your physician will tell you which markers are missing rather than reordering everything.
Your current protocol
Medication, dose, frequency, route, and anything you are taking alongside it — including anastrozole, hCG, or a thyroid medication. Write it as accurately as you can; guesses here become dosing errors later.
How long you have been on it
Start date, and any dose changes along the way. Duration changes how your physician reads your hematocrit and your fertility risk.
Your pharmacy and your remaining supply
This is the part that determines whether you have a gap. Tell us how many weeks you have left and we will work backwards from it.
Being straight about the gap.
Continuity of careWe cannot promise zero interruption, so we will not
Transferring care involves a physician evaluation, a prescription being written, a pharmacy filling it, and shipping. Realistically that is one to two weeks from the day you finish intake, and it is longer if your labs are incomplete or if a safety marker needs rechecking before anyone prescribes.
The way to avoid a gap is to start the transfer while you still have three or four weeks of medication left. Any clinic that tells you a controlled-substance transfer is instant is either not reading your labs or not filling through a real pharmacy.
When a fresh panel really is necessary
Three situations, and they are clinical rather than commercial. Your labs are older than six months and your dose has changed since. Your labs are missing a hard safety gate — hematocrit is the usual one, PSA in men over forty is the other. Or your labs used a direct immunoassay for free testosterone or estradiol, which is not accurate enough to dose from.
In those cases our baseline hormone panel is one morning draw, charged once, and your physician will tell you which of the three applies to you before you pay for anything.