TRT After CHF- Family

[emeric delczeg]

Long story short- father had congestive heart failure 7 weeks ago and was about 5 hours from death full body shutdown, open heart surgery, and about 40+ diagnosis with full organ failure and lungs filled with blood due to a valve rupture ( luckily the emergency surgery went well)
2 valves replaced.
He is 66 now and wants to back onto TRT but his doctor at this point said it is not a good idea with BP and so on.
Any opinions? I refuse to do it for him, his urologist won’t refill his RX.

6mg every day would be very safe and beneficial.

 

[buck]

Testosterone deficiency makes it more difficult to protect the heart. It is definitely not going to cure him but the best it can do is remove one pathway of cardiotoxicity

the problem is most cardiologists aren’t trained on testosterone so they associate it with steroids and just blindly tell patients to come off. It’s malpractice without them realizing it.

The last cardiologist i spoke to wanted to put me on a statin to lower my LDL to 70. It had been running at 75 for the last 2 years. And usually in the low 80's for the last 20 years. When asked what good that would do me his reply was probably wouldn't do any good. But his profession and hospital required him to advice it even if it would do no good and could have side effects that would worsen my health as opposed to improving it. Dr.s do what Dr.s do. And systems work the way they do and it is up to the patient to pick the best treatment. If a person wants to rubber stamp everything the Dr.s wants to do then they still have made a choice.