Quote Originally Posted by Youthful55guy View Post
Sorry, missed part of my post:

For $200/month

T-cyp is not very expensive at all. A 1 year supply at most local pharmacies, even without insurance (I have no coverage) is only about $155.

It's the HCG that pushes the price up. A 1 year supply at ~1000 IU per week is about $680, but you can get by with half that.

I don't have a script for anastrozole because I don't actually "need" it. With a T dose of only 40-50 mg E3D, there is little excess conversion to E. However, I like to use very small doses to keep me in the 50th to 75th percentile of my range instead of the upper end. I use 0.5 mg/week using the daily eye dropper method. I obtain a well known name brand through alternative sources for about $1.27 per 1 mg tablet. This equates to about $0.63 per week or $33 per year.

So my total program is about $867 per year without insurance. I'm certain you could obtain comparable pricing, or possibly lower if you shop around, if you had a script to obtain the meds yourself.

Oh, one-piece 28G insulin syringes (the actual topic of this thread) are about $0.24 each delivered to your door.


My questions:
They suggested creme instead of shots because it's easier to achieve more stable levels. What do you recommend?

Injections, when done properly, provide more predictable T levels. Topicals (cream or gel) have variable absorption and can change, even within the same person, over time. I'd say go with injections, but TRT clinics have you by the balls (pun intended) because they usually will not prescribe self-injections (this is how they make their money). Therefore, they cannot put you on a modern day protocol. Read this thread for a primer in best practices: https://forums.steroid.com/hormone-r...rting-trt.html
Thanks for your reply. I'm guessing they will provide the testosterone and HCG for $200/mo? It does seem pretty expensive to me since I can get a 3 month cycle of test, HCG, and Arimidex for around $200 at 250mg / week. The only positive to this is that at least they will be doing regular blood work, which when I did on my own was around $225. I think even with blood work I would come out cheaper if I did it on my own, but being that I have never taken exogenous testosterone, I think it would be a good idea to go with a clinic first.

Do you think I could talk them down to $150/month? Not sure if this can be negotiated. I looked at all the TRT clinics in my area and they all advertise their starting prices at $200/month for TRT.

Also, I don't have health insurance, so this is one of the main reasons I'm going through a clinic and not an Endo (apart from the fact that no endo would prescribe me TRT at my total T levels of 461).