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[Hurdity]

Mindfulmoomins - not all gynaes will measure testosterone levels ecxept to make sure you are not getting too much once you start taking it. The same test is used for women as for men, and our levels are right at the lower end of the scale which apparently is therefore very inaccurate for women. I have been told it is more important to go by symptoms of which libido would be the most obvious. For example if your libido was fab and you had aches and pains (especially after exercise) and fatigue it could be well be something else (eg thyroid?). Definitely something to explore with your gynae. A very small pea-sized blob might make all the difference. I use testogel sachets ( until they run out!) but my pea-sized blob means a sachet lasts a fortnight I would say. Women who have had full hyster + ovary removal I think are often prescribed more as they don't have ovaries to make any T at all.

49 days roadrunner  !!!!

It's very annoying that the lower strength T products are being discontinued - but as they are not licensed for women presumably the manufacturers are aiming towards ease of use for men?

Hurdity x

[Hurdity]

On another post I said that the testogel sachets have been discontinued and I have been given a testogel pump. I have put 2 pumps of gel into the syringe that I previously squeezed the sachet into. The sachet contained roughly 6 ml of gel, 2 pumps of the new strength is 3 ml.

I have had an e-mail letter from the manufacturers and they confrim that the Testogel sachets will still be available but they recommende the pump ( but my query to them was assumed to be about men!). I think there are just temporary supply problems (we've heard this before haven't we!).

Hurdity x

[Noheroicsplease]

Hurdity,

Why do you think 2 doctors this week (a consultant and a former private GP) recommended Tostran? Why not testogel (si that the same as Testim)?

I have just looked a the sites and Testogel  contains 16.2mg/g and Tostran is 20mg/1g of tesosterone. Not a wild difference, but more.

My sister (pharmacist) keeps telling me it makes no difference, you just adjust the quantity but it still strikes me as odd.