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If you are over 30 and have a good primary care physician with whom you have good rapport, then you shouldn't have any problems. There is much information both on this site and elsewhere, of ways that you can get your doctor to consider HRT, what symptoms to complain about and ways to get your Test levels to temporarily decline so that your bloodwork comes back to support your symptoms.

That way, assuming you have insurance, you can get bottles of test cyp- or enan for about 8 bucks. I get mine from my regular PCP. I just hope that when I move out of this state that I can find someone who is even comes close to how cool my doc is.

They might want to start you out on the topical gels first - like androgel or testim, but there are ways for you to get him to bump you up to injections (the most prevalent of which is to say that the gels irritate your skin). Or, you can tell him that your insurance has no prescription coverage. Without insurance a 10 ml bottle of test cyp 200mg/ml is about $85. The comparable amount of Testim or androgel costs about $400 a month. I run 200mg/week, so that means (in theory) that one bottle covers 2.5 months, so the equivalent cost of the gels for that period is $1000.

Once you break it down to the doc like that, he'll have no problem giving you injections. You will have to get blood work several times to make sure that your levels aren't too high, but you just knock your dosage down before you go in for the labs. That way, he won't decrease your dosage and may, in fact, increase it to get your levels into the therapeutic range.

I've written several posts about testim and other information about HRT in this section. In those writings I believe that I linked to other places where there is more info about manipulating your own test levels.

Hope that helps. After reading what is already here, google terms like Male Menapause and Andropause and read up on some other sites. Then, if you need some more info, PM me if you want and I'll be more than happy to share whatever information that I have regarding the subject.