Hi anything like that in QCTeletest in Ontario is excellent. It might not help you @OP but it may help others
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Blood testing in Canada?
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brutaltarik
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not sure unfortunately, but I think that quebec is a bit more loose with private healthcare in general so so degree of Googling might get you there. I know back in COVID people intentionally transited out of montreal because you could pay for covid testing there for non-essential travel
any opinions on siphoxhealth is blood test from home ?
brutaltarik
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not familiar at all
mikeh1998
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Maple has been crap for me. I tried asking 3 doctors in a row for blood tests and they all told me to just go to a walk in clinic. They typed so fast to tell me to fuck off it was unreal. This was before I ever thought about touching PEDs by the way, I was just having depression and wanted to make sure everything is OK on the hormonal end.
Only silver lining is that when I told customer support about it they gave me a full refund no questions asked like an hour later.
I use Teletest and I like it so far, costs some money but beats the Russian Roulette of getting a good walk in doctor. Protip if you do use them, go to Dynacare to get your blood tests done instead of LifeLabs if your T is going to show up >1500 because it's capped at LifeLabs.
brutaltarik
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fwiw some clinics have a policy that if you mention certain things they refer you out immediately. It might be as little as a keyword like "depression".. they see this as risk of suicidality and want to risk-off so they direct you to in person care or emerge.
Good tip on the requisitions!
mikeh1998
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Interesting, I so far never had a bad experience at a walk-in or telehealth when mentioning depression.
When I mentioned that I talked to Maple about the blood test and they told me to fuck off, I didn't mention depression or anything related. I just wrote a short message like "Could you give a requisition for a hormonal blood panel?". I was expecting maybe a conversation would follow where they'd ask me why but they just ended the conversation there.
I have had great success multiple times with this :
Simply, go to a walk in clinic and tell the Dr you need blood work as your urologist / endocrinologist is on vacation and maternity leave, etc. Tell them you do not have a family dr. Tell them you had a medication change and you have x y z side effects, and Tell them a FEW specific labs (i.e. test, estrogen, not something random that makes no sense medically like hcg etc). Get lab req and go to a lab of your choice (I.e. dynacare in ontario) as most labs have online platforms (usually for a small membership like $13/yr) for you to view and receive your own results - otherwise contact clinic for results.
Success rate = 9/10. only turned away once, some dr you need to "push" a bit.
Simply, go to a walk in clinic and tell the Dr you need blood work as your urologist / endocrinologist is on vacation and maternity leave, etc. Tell them you do not have a family dr. Tell them you had a medication change and you have x y z side effects, and Tell them a FEW specific labs (i.e. test, estrogen, not something random that makes no sense medically like hcg etc). Get lab req and go to a lab of your choice (I.e. dynacare in ontario) as most labs have online platforms (usually for a small membership like $13/yr) for you to view and receive your own results - otherwise contact clinic for results.
Success rate = 9/10. only turned away once, some dr you need to "push" a bit.
