Pharmacist knows how to inject
[QUOTE=Bebot1;2512777]I did not know the pharmacist will inject you. I do TRT therapy in the states once a week at a men's health clinic so I would prefer a doctor or nurse to inject me so I will look for a doctor first who will do that after I buy the testosterone from the pharmacy. If I cannot find one then I will just let the pharmacist inject me. I will only need it once during the middle of my trip. Thanks for this information.[/QUOTE]I had a pharmacist in Medellin give me a shot on 2 occasions and he did great. In the glutes. They have been doing it for a long time and know how to do it. I had bought some be vitamins injections and he offered to do it for a dollar. I was hesitant but went ahead and he was better than a nurse. The have a room specially for injections. They are now and have been for a couple years injecting at CVS and Walgreens flu shots. Much easier and cheaper to go to a pharmacist rather than going to a doctor.
I have some experience with testosterone
[QUOTE=Detwing1;2513063]Well I'm not going to get in a pissing match, but if you're using TRT doses responsibly and under the guidance of a prescribing physician, then it boils down to a quality of life decision.
To each his own.[/QUOTE]I have been around the block with the testosterone thing and talked to many health professionals about it so I will throw my two sense in on this one, I am not trying to get in a pissing contest either but its a debatable issue. I am told it also depends on how low your natural testosterone is. If you really have a large deficit than the fact that it depletes your natural production is the cost of feeling normal and the pros out way the cons, If you have a large deficit than the loss of energy is going to mimic depression and going to cause a loss your personal production and maybe cost money, it is going to cause your muscles to atrophy cause a person to put on fat which puts them in danger of heart issues, high blood pressure, cancer, diabetes etc. Low testosterone also causes anemia, poor memory, low sex drive and osteoporosis.
So living with true low testosterone can be depressing, and bad for your psychologically and physically it can actually shorten your life. Getting on therapy directed to get you to normal levels has risks also not just the ones listed by BlackPage, the biggest risk is that too much testosterone will also case health effects and unfortunately for people my age "too much testosterone" can mean less than for younger men. It increases your risk of prostate cancer and fuels rapid growth of prostate cancer. It can lead to cardiovascular issues that can be fatal, and it can lead to negative psychological issues too.
Years ago when I was in my late twenties and early thirties I hang out with a group of bikers that were all either current or ex professional wrestlers (WWE style showman fake wrestling) a couple of whom had even done shows in Madison Garden and one had been in the ring with Mr. T back in the day, another had been Mick Foley's partner in the 80's before Foley was famous as "Mankind" and "Cactus Jack" in the 90's. By the time I knew these guys they were knocked down a few notches were just running their own local thing running shows in small town national guard armories. Anyway these guys were roid heads to be polite about it. They didn't buy street steroids they had a in somewhere where they could get Testosterone Cypionate (the same you get from the doc for therapy most likely) and they were doing this stuff when they were forty years old. They are all dead now. All of them. Five fiends of mine. I moved around and lost touch with most of them before that but over like a ten year period I heard about each of their deaths. One was liver cancer at 43 yrs old, another was cardiac arrest at 42 years old, one was prostate cancer at around 45 years old, I never head what the other two died from but they did not die in accidents and they did not live to see 50 and they thing they all had in common was using that testosterone.
That does not mean that I am any smarter than anyone else, a few years ago I was having a about of mid life crises bummed outness and was frustrated with going to the gym everyday killing myself trying to lose weight and not seeing the types of gains from it that I had ten years before and so I go all my shit checked out by one of those clinics in Florida that specialize in older men's health. I do not live in Fla but in those days you called them up, made an appointment and they sent an Advanced Practical Nurse to your house and they did the physical and sent your blood to LabCorp and then those vampires would sell you the testosterone for what I later calculated to be four times the regular market value. They were able to do this because Florida was / is the only state that does not regulate testosterone stricter than that. They sense cracked down federally and can not do all this remotely the way I did, you have have a face to face the last time l checked.
I do not have any problem sticking myself in the butt with a shot, you just have to get that darting motion down with a flick of the wrist like you are throwing a dart. Just don't let go of the needles LOL. I felt eighteen years old again, I put on muscle in the gym like Arnold, I started having women looking twice at me again, I was waking up with morning wood for the first time in years, I had energy and vigor like I was high all the time. It was amazing, then a few months in and started having trouble urinating. A lot of starting and stopping. I had to tell my VA doc that was cheating on him and seeing a Fla doc on the side that made me feel younger. And tell him about the testosterone. He agreed to that if I got off it for a month than we would retest and if I fit the the VA's profile of low testosterone they would prescribe it to me, I did not meet hem I was normal range. He explained to me that the most likely thing that had happened was that the testosterone had enlarged my prostate and he said if I had continued it could have led to cancer. That's when I got my first lecture about testosterone and the dangers. That's when I started thinking about all my friends who had died young.
My experiences and observations are that testosterone can be vital if you truly needed or dangerous if you do not, and if you need it don't be such a pussy have the RN show you the darting action for giving the shot and after that do it yourself. If you are dealing with those doctors down in Florida they may not have your best health interest in mind over the interest of their profits.
