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re: Testosterone pellets or injections???

Posted on 7/25/23 at 5:55 am to
Posted by Wiener
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 7/25/23 at 5:55 am to
Just going to take this opportunity to make some comments here, none of which is official medical advice. :)

First, make sure you're going to a physician who was actually trained to do this. T clinics are notorious for picking up physicians who quit what they were trained to do in order to do something easier. I'm not exactly sure what their training entails, but from the patients I see I'm 99% sure it's training by the T clinic to set them up to maximize profit per patient.

Their motives almost seem to be keeping you hooked. I've seen people walk into my office with a testosterone of 2000 who are about to undergo dose increases. Sure, they're taking anastrozole and giving blood every other month, but if they can bill just a little bit more per patient it doesn't matter to them. If your testosterone is normal or above and you still have symptoms, the problem is not your testosterone.

So go to someone who will treat you and still cares about you as a patient. Most T clinics are not setup that way.

Quick Notes:
Your testosterone should be checked before 9 am and fasting (T clinics will check at 4 pm when everyone is "low").
Exogenous testosterone inhibits sperm production, so ask about other options if you still want kids.
For those of you on it, anastrozole and blood donations are not first line treatment for gynecomastia (growing boobs) or polycythemia (red blood cells too high) - dose reduction is. The normal human male does not make enough testosterone to shunt so much into estrogen that he grows boobs.
This post was edited on 7/25/23 at 6:01 am
Posted by Bjorn Cyborg
Member since Sep 2016
26938 posts
Posted on 7/25/23 at 10:02 am to
quote:

First, make sure you're going to a physician who was actually trained to do this.


Is this generally a urologist?

For those that did it, what were your symptoms and where did you first go? General practitioner or straight to a T-Clinic?
Posted by JasonDBlaha
Woodlands, Texas
Member since Apr 2023
2407 posts
Posted on 8/15/23 at 2:10 pm to
Aromatase inhibitors cause more side effects and have been medically documented to negatively affect the heart more than TRT does. Get them the hell off of any AIs and keep the TRT dose low enough so that their blood pressure stays in the normal range while high enough for them to be in the normal to upper normal T range
This post was edited on 8/15/23 at 2:19 pm
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