Visited my endo last week. I have been on Androgel, 5gms. daily for about 9 months now. That dosage was fantastic for a while, but "fantastic" faded away around last May. Endo was suspicious that other health concerns may have been impacting, but after some more bloodwork and a test, he has elected to prescribe Androgel 10gms. daily. Cautious guy he is.

OK...making some progress here. Next BW and endo visit is in January. Now, problem is that it is difficult to find enough skin to apply 10 gms. of gel. So I am doing 5 pumps morning and 3 pumps at bedtime. We'll see how that works. After describing this process to my wife, she sighed and agreed to administer IM...something she didn't want any part of up till now. Giving injections isn't something she "signed on for".

So...assuming my T levels and libido improve at the higher gel dose, it may be possible that the endo will agree to IM dosing in January. I think that is where I want to be, but it took about a year to get there. Oh...I'll just do the pinning in the quads after the doctor agrees to have my wife administer in the glutes. For some reason the doctor didn't think that me injecting into the quads would be a very good idea.

Anyway, that sort of describes my TRT journey of late.

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