Hey Tim, glad you pointed out the HUGE discrepancies between the urinary panel results and blood test results. According to Rhein Labs it looks like nearly everyone was taking high doses of exogenous T. We know that’s not true. Meanwhile, the blood tests often show seemingly normal results.
I remember asking the doctor why many of the hormones came back crazy-high when bloods tests said they were well within normal.
He acted like nothing was really out-of-the-ordinary and basically told me that the test was performed to show the ratios of the hormones to each other rather than the total amounts of each hormone.
I don’t understand why that the normal ratios aren’t provided with the lab report rather than only reference ranges for each?
Also couldn’t find anything on the internet about how they obtained their seemingly botched reference ranges.
Can anyone provide this information?
I remember kazman pointed out a couple of the ratios, and there are a few of the other ratios that can be found with a google search, but I just can’t find any info showing what all of the normal ratios should be for the rhein urinary panel. It should be available somewhere.
(It sucks when you go on long google searches looking for info and keep finding the same posts on this site )
It is possible that they use the concentration of creatinine in a given urine sample as a sort of reference against the concentration of hormones because nearly everyone pisses out close to the same amount of creatinine over a 24H period no matter what the total volume of urine is. This is often used to test for over-dilution in urinalysis. If we had a relatively low concentration of creatinine in the samples for some reason, then it makes sense that the concentration of hormones tested would be relatively high in comparison… Don’t quote me on this though, it only holds true if they use a creatinine/hormone method.
Still, it seems like you are right Tim. Just from comparing the urine-blood test results, it appears that there is either a problem with the reference ranges or nearly everyone who posted their results is pissing out an obscene amount of various hormones for some reason.