anyone use test gel / cream?

[JdFlex]

I wonder the efficacy of test cream vs injections. I'm thinking of switching. I'm on 100mg test c per week, Dr prescribed. He said I can switch anytime. Anyone here using a non-inject test? Results?

[Windex]

I wonder the efficacy of test cream vs injections. I'm thinking of switching. I'm on 100mg test c per week, Dr prescribed. He said I can switch anytime. Anyone here using a non-inject test? Results?

It's junk. Real world absorption rate is mediocre.

Sometimes skin can react negatively if you have sensitive skin or oily sebaceous glands.

Takes longer than doing an injection because you have to make sure it won't get onto your clothes or another person.

More expensive (on average)

[Beetlegeuse]

I use a blend because I get the gel (at a subsidized cost) from the VA and top it off with Test C I get from a UGL.

I started on the patch and that stopped working in short order, then the VA switched me to the topical gel. At first I got really mediocre results from the gel, Total Test <300 (but up from from my natural ~120). But I was having a bad acne attack once and I bought a nylon back scrubbing brush from Wally World and the areas I was scrubbing for acne also happened to be the application site for the gel (upper arms, chest and back).

So I scrub with the nylon brush and Oxy 10 acne scrub when I bathe. And the first thing I do when I get out of the tub is apply the gel.

After they switched me to the gel I also started adding 2.5 mg of Test C sub-q every (in divided doses) each week.

Now my total Test is consistently +/-700 and I credit the fact that my skin is freshly "exfoliated" before each application of the gel. And I don't think the 2.5mg of Test C per week is boosting the numbers that much but there is a noticeable difference in how I respond in terms of both when weight training and morning wood.

I don't know my Free T because the VA doesn't run that test but it stands to reason going from 300 free to 700, it's bound to have been boosted some.

All that said, pinning is always going to produce more regular absorption and uptake than topical.

But if you have no other option than the gel, ... exfoliate before each and every application, and apply first thing after getting out of a hot bath. The Oxy 10 might play some role in the improvement, too, I don't know, but it does a number on the acne.

[RoxRunner]

I wonder the efficacy of test cream vs injections. I'm thinking of switching. I'm on 100mg test c per week, Dr prescribed. He said I can switch anytime. Anyone here using a non-inject test? Results?

I was on androgel for the first two years I was on TRT. It worked great until it didn't. For whatever reason my body quit absorbing the gel and my T level plummeted. I then started pellets.

[Slick88]

I wonder the efficacy of test cream vs injections. I'm thinking of switching. I'm on 100mg test c per week, Dr prescribed. He said I can switch anytime. Anyone here using a non-inject test? Results?

Overpriced garbage man. I decided to try it as my original doc was money hungry (didn’t find out until later) so they would only let me on gels, pellets, or coming into the office every 2 weeks for a shot. All horrible options, but I went with the gel

All it did was shut off my test production, lower my values ever further (do to poor absorption) and skyrocket my E2 levels. I felt worse on it at a max dose than I did when my natural levels were at 262. Did I mention it’s insanely expensive as well?

[Ashop]

Get the injectable. Topicals and transdermal work poorly in comparison and a far overpriced.