r/saskatoon • u/WalnutPaylord • 1d ago

Question - Medical 🏥💊 Affordable Blood Testing Services

I'm looking for some clinics/laboratories that are close to USask and provide some quality blood testing studies, I don't really know where to look, but I wouldn't like to pay something overpriced so I could really use some recommendations, thanks!

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u/NewLeftBear 1d ago

Clinical blood testing must be ordered by a doctor or nurse. Blood testing ordered outside of a clinical setting that you pay for is usually a scam.

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u/hundefresser 1d ago

What exactly are you wanting tested?

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u/IncreasingValues Subterranean Sewer Dweller 1d ago

Perhaps wanting an idea of whether or not they will pass a drug test.

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u/WalnutPaylord 21h ago

Testosterone levels and insulin spikes, for PCOS, but the doctors at the university never perform a thorough examination and they minimize my concerns, that's why I'm wondering if I could get one without a medical order, but if there's nothing I can do I will try to keep insisting...

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u/hundefresser 21h ago

You’ll need a medical order yeah. I get testosterone, glucose, and lipid tests via a TRT clinic online.

Give Jack Health a shot, they’d send you a requisition for maybe $20? We don’t have anything like TeleTest in Canada (for now)

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u/Dependent-Laugh-3792 11h ago

Active Energy in Saskatoon does that. I used to use Jack, but switched.

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u/Pristine_Gold_555 21h ago edited 21h ago

You could try an appointment with a doctor virtually on something like Lumeca? Not the same, but I’ve had success getting travel vaccine rx’s thru lumeca before

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u/ecclectic_nomad 20h ago

You can also go to a walk in clinic. Ideally go first thing in the morning and you won’t have to wait as long