A bit of an update on my case…call it food for thought for the guys wondering “Do I need to do this?”
I can probably trace the symptoms that got me here back 6-7 years, perhaps longer. At that time, we were trying to get pregnant and sex got to feeling like a chore. Started being less interested and it was always based around fertility timing. In roughly the same time period I got diagnosed with T2 diabetes, so I was attributing some to that as well. I was also into my 40s at that point and figured things were starting to slow down, etc. etc.
Symptoms did seem to get better for a while…but then around 2-3 years ago hit a new low in terms of libido and being able to keep an erection long enough to be useful. Talked to Doc…he blamed it on blood sugar and said he’d write me for the little blue pill. I was thinking about it and then symptoms seemed to get somewhat better again for a year or so. Then they got worse again despite me having my blood sugar well under control.
To put it bluntly, most of the time I just flat out wasn’t interested at all in sex, which is quite unlike me. Then when we would go for it…it’d take a long time to get it up and the slightest distraction would cause me to lose it. Starts to weigh on confidence not to mention enjoyment. Quite a few times I never got beyond a soft-on. How much of that was mental vs physiological, I don’t know right now. So at my physical I asked the doc about checking T and we did, and here I am. Total was about 20-30% below the bottom of the normal range, although free/bioavailable were (barely) in range.
So at this point, I’m 4 weeks in, injecting 100mg of T. Cypionate a week to start out with. I wouldn’t begin to presume I’m optimal yet (don’t know and not going to change anything until I do a round of labs in another 3-4 weeks).
Most recent round of sex, it was as if the recent years’ issues never happened. Most definitely was interested rather than feeling obligated to keep the wife happy. Popped a rager on cue and had no problems maintaining it.
That’s the biggest difference so far for me. Everything else that I could even possibly consider a change is either very minor or attributable to any number of other factors in my life.
In terms of cost…I’m spending about the same on insurance as I would be without it - about $15-16 per 1ml vial (200mg Cyp).
LS