HRT therapy and older men

The clinic I went to meant well but IMO was very inconsistent. They would range my doses from 200mg to 140mg after each 6 week BW. If it went high, they would drop it way down which would lead to a lower reading on the next test, which meant they would raise it back up after the next BW. Plus, they were not cheap.

Why, no insurance? Use a DR. if you can #1 choice.. Having a Dr. who is at least a little bit informed or open to the subject is much better than you with only a little bit of information.. However if you don't have that option available to you then educate yourself with as much information as you can find on TRT, and then.... One can easily obtain their own lab work, and there are enough sources available for whatever your needs are...

Posted by: @gabe-walker

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Why, no insurance? Use a DR. if you can #1 choice.. Having a Dr. who is at least a little bit informed or open to the subject is much better than you with only a little bit of information.. However if you don't have that option available to you then educate yourself with as much information as you can find on TRT, and then.... One can easily obtain their own lab work, and there are enough sources available for whatever your needs are...

when you say "use a Dr." do you mean an endo?

Moved to Testosterone Replacement Therapy Section.

Posted by: @bb1129

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when you say "use a Dr." do you mean an endo?

^^^Probably the best choice

Endo, Internist (dr. of internal medicine), DP, whatever. Bottom line find one that will be open to your thoughts on the subject and willing to work with you... More and more you will find dr's who are open to trying TRT with you.. Many times you will be more informed than they are..Thing is find one you can have an open relationship with and not just takes what you say, gives their opinion and moves you back out the door... If you are dissatisfied by one then get another...

At the very least having a Dr who will order basic labs and write you prescriptions is one you can work with and hopefully both of you will be better off down the road.. If you are low test it should not be a problem and if your dr says its normal dont worry about it is living in the dark ages you don't want him/her anyway...

I think avg TRT dose is 200mg

Average dose- depending on the informality- it's 150 every 10 days on TRT from Endo

Posted by: @bizflow01

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I think avg TRT dose is 200mg

200mg/week is wealthy TRT.. I think you can do just fine with 100mg/week.

TRT has me on 300mg cypionate a week. But you can order whatever you want and as many as you want if you have the $$$$$

TRT ..from an Endo or Urologist, is a prescription followed up by a target free t and total t ng/dl. It's a prescription where I live that is monitored by the Endo dept and pharmacy. Unless the Dr wrote a never ending script, I've never seen where you can order as many as you want?

Good to have a good TRT huh 🙂

Testosterone Replacement Therapy is not to just provide a dude legal prescription testosterone.... It's intended goal is to restore your levels to normal/upper-normal.. targeted to the upper 1/3 to 1/4 % range of normal male test levels... that usually can be accomplished with a starting dose of 100mg/wk of testosterone.. Of course everyone is different, and thats where lab work comes in... To do it properly you need to be monitored on a regular basis.. Anyone can just inj. test and call it TRT or a test cruise or whatever but that is not TRT... It's intended to restore levels to a healthy "Normal." Hey, if 300mg/wk is doing it for ya then cool but, if your levels are out of range then that's not TRT..

I was on gear for around 2 yr. without ever coming off and never no PCT. When I did quit taking it I was off for a few months and just felt bad all the time. Always too tired to do anything with my son or anything. Felt like I was 80 yr. old or something so I decided to go have my bloodwork done. Figured my test levels were low and my bloodwork came back and my test levels were 103. Thats when the Doc prescribed me cyp. @200 mg month. I did that for awhile and it just was'nt helping me like I wanted still felt tired all the time. So I went back did my bloodwork again and my levels were 335. Thats when I got in TRT and I told the Doc. what I was taking and he prescribed me the 300mg a week. Been doing that for a few months now. Don't know what my levels are now, but tomorrow I have to have my bloodwork done again. So i'll know when it comes back what it is and what were going to do.