Hello I am new to this forum so If I do not post in the correct manner please excuse me I guess I will learn as I go along. I have been on TRT for the past 2 months, I currently need to drive 2 1/2 hours out of town once per month where I am given 4 weekly injections of 200 mg of Testosterone Cypionate at a cost of $ 240.00 plus fuel and expenses driving over there and back home
I was told by a friend that if I saw a local doctor I would be able to purchase the T at a local pharmacy with prescription for much cheaper and so I made an appointment and saw the doctor and I told him about what I had been taking and he told me that he did not recommend weekly doses and recommended that I take on monthly injection of the Testosterone Cypionate at his office and so his nurse administered an injection of 1cc which I understand is 1000 mg and said in a month I could return for another
My question is would this be OK or would I be better off taking the 200 mg weekly injections granted I could find another doctor here locally that would be OK with this?
PS When I first visited the clinic out of town they did my blood work and my T level was 159. I am currently 53 years old and in the 2 months I have been on the TRT I have already started to notice results in weight loss and become leaner and more cut up
1cc is usually 1 ml. so what was the strength? usually its 200mg per ml or 100mg per ml. find out.
so you would get prefilled syringes from dr since you go 1x a month?
oh lord. this is horrible. cypionate has a 1/2 life of 7-8 days!! that means you will have a very high peak and crash miserable within a week or so.
What you went to was not a dr. but a butcher. 1 injection a month of cypionate is horrible.
a good starting protocol is 50 mg 2x a week so you are more stable. some can do with 1 injection a week. some take a total of 80 mg a week some need up to 150 mg or so. 100 mg is a good start.
you should be able to get a script, purchase syringes and inject yourself.
Good lord!
And like Charlie said, get the script and inject at home. Remind your doc that his diabetic patients can pin themselves so you can too.
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Hello Charlie,
Hello Charlie,
The clinic in San Antonio (https://www.malemedicalgroup.com/) was giving me 4 pre-filled syringes of Testosterone Cypionate 250 mg/ml of 200 mg each to take every 7 days and one of the girls here at my office was giving me the shots. In all honesty I have felt great, my workouts are stronger and I have started getting leaner and lost weight in these past 2 months.
Unfortunately I do not know what the strength was of the shot they gave me yesterday, the doctor just told the nurse to give me 1cc and that is what she did. I will not be returning with him that’s for sure.
I greatly appreciate your help, I will immediately look at finding another doctor here locally to get me the script so I can purchase the syringes and have my employee give me an injection once per week.
Warmest regards,
Renato
What’s really going on here is your doctor gets to bill the insurance companies for administering the injection plus any co-pay, this is a business never forget this little fact.
I’m going to provide you with a 12 year old study that proves beyond a reasonable doubt 200mg once every two weeks will not work let alone once a month. After only 6 days your levels drop below optimal, this situations happens sooner for low SHBG men.
SHBG levels will determine injection frequencies. I didn’t start responding well to TRT until I started injecting smaller doses EOD do to low SHBG. You don’t need someone else to administer the injection, inject using a 29 gauge insulin syringe in the shoulders or outer quads.
You can’t just randomly decide you want to inject once weekly, your SHBG will dictate how often you inject. Doing what you want to do isn’t going to be what you need to do.
Say goodbye to this doctor because he is clueless.
Have a look at Graph B
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/endocrj/53/3/53_3_305/_pdf
Thank you I appreciate all the help
If you felt good at 200 a week that’s great. Continue that.
Run labs to monitor things like HCT.