Waffling between injections and Androgel
Here's my situation.
I have a urologist who prescribes Androgel. He's very difficult to deal with. He believes that 300-400 is a good testosterone level. I was able to trick him into giving me 4 pumps by missing my dose before the blood test. Now, I saw him for a refill. He asked how I felt, I told him I felt great. He then decided to drop my dose to 3 pumps. Now I've gotten tired of him.
I have a TRT specialist. He gives me whatever I want.......AI, no problem, deca, no problem, hcg, no problem....... Now you ask, why did I leave him? First, I wanted all my records in one place. With the urologist, the records are in one place. The TRT Specialist is outside of it. Also, He does injections. I did injections for 6 months. No problems and I got over my fear of sticking myself.
So why switch to Androgel when I had no problems with injections? I kept on reading, on many different boards about people battling hematocrit problems, estrogen problems, etc. From what I read, it looks like injections cause more problems. I also read that Androgel keeps a person on a natural rhythm and that lessens the problems that I keep reading about (estrogen, hematocrit, etc.)
Now i'm stuck. I want to dump the urologist and get back with the real TRT doc. I met him and he gave me a script for both Androgel and Test C. I filled the test C and paid $10. When i went to fill the Androgel, the Pharmacist said I'm wasting my money with Androgel. it's $45 and even at the highest dose, it can't compare to Test C. He then spoke about how weather affects it, how it can rub off on clothing, how it can affect the wife and daughter, how some days my test levels can be 800 and other days 600 (this is true), and how I have to see the doc every month for Androgel versus every other month for test C.
Sorry for the rambling, but does that natural rhythm thing that Androgel does make it better? I was on test C for 6 months and Androgel for 9 months and I felt the same on both and had no estrogen or hematocrit problems. Do these problems creep up?