TRT
Testosterone levels decrease with age as rapidly as 0.4–2% annually after age 30 years.
Prescription of Testosterone Replacement Therapy has increased 5 times in the last three decades, realizing increased revenues from US$18 million in the 1980s to US$2 billion in 2015.
It is good to hear you are seeing a urologist. Hormones are something they deal with regularly, especially in this regard. There are many doctors prescribing TRT without any training or experience in endocrinology whatsoever. Unfortunately, medicine is a business and business is about money. We all know what that means.
Anyone considering TRT you may want to know:
Is your free testosterone level being measured or your serum (overall)l?
What else was tested?
How many times were you tested to determine your diagnosis?
How often will you be tested thereafter and what will the test consist of?
What training and experience does your doctor have with this? Are they an endocrinologist?
Is anything else being prescribed or recommended in addition to the testosterone?
Supplements? Diet? Lifestyle? Activity?
What kind of testosterone? synthetic?"bioidentical"?
Do you know the potential side effects?
How long will you be on it?
What happens if you quit?
I hope this therapy does everything you want it to and more. I will be tuned in to hear about the progress you are making. I find it very interesting.
Posted By: nevertoolarge
for the last 18 months my performance and firmness has noticably gone down ( no pun intended .. or maybe a little)
even with blue pill assistance.
i took this as a normal occurrence at my near 60 ish age .. well i recently went to my urologist for an unrelated matter and he asked if my libido was low as my testosterone levels were low ... well yeah ! so going on appropriate meds this month and will be interesting to see what happens ... then again the low levels were saving me money ! LOL
one sees commercials about this but i never took them seriously .. of course i will be taking real medicine not the "supplements" they sell on late night TV.
so i mention this for others over 50 doesn't hurt to check this.