So on that compounded testosterone price and availability ...Every once in a while I read someone saying "Hey it's $25.00 per month". How about more like $80.00 per month at least in my town. The local pharmacist (who is competent etc etc) said $25 he couldn't even get close to and frankly wondered how anyone else could.
So... where is this mythical land where a 3 month supply costs about $70.00. At this point I'm moving from 1 to 1.5 tubes of testim to get my levels out of the 320 tank I'm in. Finding that compounding is $80/month may not close that door if Testim fails but it certainly makes it a LOT harder. ($$$$) My insurance just laughs (figuratively about using compounding pharmacies) Aetna, they're idiots, they'd rather spend $700 per month (with my $25.00 co pay for AG or Testim)
(oh as a quick reprise... I was using 4 x 1.62 of AG per day and couldn't get out of the 500 range) Transdermals WERE working ok till about a year ago when my levels dropped from the 700 range (which WAS ok for me btw) and dropped to the 500 range and wouldn't budge. At 320 I'm functional, more fatigue (not horrible but not as good as when I was in the 700 range). Sexually it's worse (if 700 T level was an B+ my current 320 would be a C- to D+). I'm getting tested once a month till my levels stabilize somewhere.
The one tube of testim and 320 level of T is transitional for the 1st month to see if Testim works better. I'd say it does (1% 1 tube) versus 4 of the higher dose AG. Four squirts of 1.62 AG got me to 520/month and one tube of testim 1% gets me to 320. (i.e. Testim does seem to absorb better. So my doc has me going to 1.5 tubes and we retest in a month. (sheesh)
Yes I take an AI btw (anastrazole 1/2 mg/day and my E2 is 15) which helps a LOT and no at this point I will not consider injecting. Don't ask me why or suggest it for the moment, it's not relevant for this discussion.
Sadly the stuff that worked the best for me was in a TRT study two years ago when I used intranasal by Trimel pharmaceuticals. That was an A+
So: Costs for compounded cream and where? ($80.00 a month is a lot of money)
Why the F would reasons for my absorption a year ago go down? (as far as I can tell it's not thick skin)
So... where is this mythical land where a 3 month supply costs about $70.00. At this point I'm moving from 1 to 1.5 tubes of testim to get my levels out of the 320 tank I'm in. Finding that compounding is $80/month may not close that door if Testim fails but it certainly makes it a LOT harder. ($$$$) My insurance just laughs (figuratively about using compounding pharmacies) Aetna, they're idiots, they'd rather spend $700 per month (with my $25.00 co pay for AG or Testim)
(oh as a quick reprise... I was using 4 x 1.62 of AG per day and couldn't get out of the 500 range) Transdermals WERE working ok till about a year ago when my levels dropped from the 700 range (which WAS ok for me btw) and dropped to the 500 range and wouldn't budge. At 320 I'm functional, more fatigue (not horrible but not as good as when I was in the 700 range). Sexually it's worse (if 700 T level was an B+ my current 320 would be a C- to D+). I'm getting tested once a month till my levels stabilize somewhere.
The one tube of testim and 320 level of T is transitional for the 1st month to see if Testim works better. I'd say it does (1% 1 tube) versus 4 of the higher dose AG. Four squirts of 1.62 AG got me to 520/month and one tube of testim 1% gets me to 320. (i.e. Testim does seem to absorb better. So my doc has me going to 1.5 tubes and we retest in a month. (sheesh)
Yes I take an AI btw (anastrazole 1/2 mg/day and my E2 is 15) which helps a LOT and no at this point I will not consider injecting. Don't ask me why or suggest it for the moment, it's not relevant for this discussion.
Sadly the stuff that worked the best for me was in a TRT study two years ago when I used intranasal by Trimel pharmaceuticals. That was an A+
So: Costs for compounded cream and where? ($80.00 a month is a lot of money)
Why the F would reasons for my absorption a year ago go down? (as far as I can tell it's not thick skin)