AndroGel in Mexico (Testosterone Therapy)
I have a legal Rx here in the US for AndroGel, which is a 1% testosterone topical gel with an alchohol base. It's very expensive here at about $250 for each 2-bottle package, which lasts a month. As a semi-retired person with limited income and no medical insurance, that is a lot of money.
Does anyone know if AndroGel is available in Mexico or Canada, if it is a regulated medicine there, and what the product might cost? I don't use it as an aid to weight training but as a therapy medicine. Failing finding a cheaper, legal, source for the gel, I want to research ways of boosting testosterone using legal precursors and diet so any pointers in that direction would also be very welcome.
04/14/2008 Follow Up - Alternates in USA
Thanks to everyone who responded. There was a good deal of useful information in the replies.
Since I first posted I have also found another avenue here in the USA as well and wanted to pass that information on to others. Through an MD here in my community I became aware of a pharmacy that has what's called a "compounding chemist" elsewhere in the English-speaking world. He does what pharmacists did for many years - he makes up medicines himself. He is able to make up a topical cream of 5% testosterone for about 10% of cost of AndroGel or similar products. This has proven to be very workable for me.
My goal was testosterone replacement therapy (TRT), so the quanity present in the cream would not be of much use to someone interested in creatiing very large mass. However, if your goal is TRT then it is definitely an excellent, economical way to go, especially if you're on a limited budget as I am.
Best,
Lucien