Nurse asked "why do all you guys want to stick yourself with a needle?"

[Stickman123]

So I went in for my 3rd TRT shot today and started to talk to the nurse about learning to do my own injections.

She said a lot of the doc's TRT patients want to do injections and she (and the doc, presumably) doesn't see why. She says there are new concentrated gels that are easy to apply and there are no disadvantages over injections. She gave me the name of a local compounding pharmacy that will make a gel for $60 per 90-day supply.

I guess I was thinking of shots because I'm planning an eventual blast, but obviously didn't say that. I was also leaning that way because it seems most guys on here do injections (right ?).

I'll meet with the doc in two weeks to go over my blood results and I don't want to raise any red flags by insisting on an injection. Any reason I shouldn't go with the gel?

For what it's worth, this is a family practitioner and the nurse says TRT is becoming very popular with the docs' patients in their 40s and 50s....

[spywizard]

It's so that the doc office can charge the insurance, or patient..

gels.... the same as injection?? not in any studies i've read, or people i've trained and know..

so if it were true, we'd all be doing it..

[Noles12]

Based on my fathers experience gels are not on the same level as injections. He says he used the gels and it helped but right after he switched over to injections it was like he discovered what life was like again

[zaggahamma]

i never stuck with the gel long enough...it worked well enough til i got the vial in hand...super inconvenient, time consuming, messy, etc. anyway....

i've seen countless ppl post here come and gone and very few stick with the gel pardon the pun

glad u didnt spill the beans too

[kelkel]

LMAO jpkman! Point taken (pun intended)

[Far from massive]

Gels not only are innefective they need to be used very carefully around your family unless you don't mind your daughters having 5 times their normal adolescent sex drive...of course the moustache might mean you don't need to worry about it...

[GotNoBlueMilk]

Wow, a nurse who thinks needles are bad. Picked a poor profession didn't she.

[sirupate]

The gels work really well for some men. I think more of the test. converts to DHT leading to better libido. But yeah, most guys here seem to be injecting and like that option pretty well.

[dec11]

i wonder if she gets commission from the gel company........

[Pac Man]

There's 1000 reasons why the gel is garbage. Why would you want to stick yourself? Convenience, who the hell wants to go to the Dr's office every week to get a shot when you can do it at home.