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I've been on prescribed TRT for ~6mos, my doc was fine with either subq or IM. I tried IM a couple of times but didn't notice any improvement over subq, so I'm exclusively subq now. Testosterone is oil-based and so more viscous than a peptide injection, but really not bad to pin. I use a 1/2"...

For the sake of easy math - I like to add 1ml of bacteriostatic water to 10mg vials, so each mg is .1ml or 10 units on an insulin syringe. If you're on a 2.5mg dose, that would be .25ml or 25 units. You would have four of those per vial. (1ml / 4 = 0.25 mL & 10mg / 4 = 2.5 mg) Or, if you wanted...

I paid $30 for a medical provider to do a virtual evaluation and then they emailed me the LOMN. https://www.truemed.com/shop/merchants/tonal

Heh, I hear ya! Mine was very skeptical, but it turns out he likes it even more than I do now... I did end up using TrueMed to get a letter of medical necessity allowing me to use my HSA to purchase. Those pre-tax dollars definitely go a bit further! Will update down the line :)

My spouse and I bought a Tonal around six weeks ago. We both have no prior weight lifting experience, and are both currently doing 3-5 workouts a week. So far, very impressed with the machine, programs, and coaches. It's quite expensive, but if it gets us to build and stick to a habit, well...

I’m not diabetic or prediabetic, but I did have one fasting glucose test come back just over 100, which freaked me out. So, when the Dexcom Stelo kit (with two sensors) was released around the same time, I jumped on one. I wore the first sensor while waiting for my first GLP1 prescription...

Right? I think nearly half of my office has expressed interest in going on a GLP1... a couple have gone to compound pharmacies, and the rest have given up once our insurance plan denied the PA. There's a lot of untapped demand if they could just pull the right affordability lever.

Heh, I got that sense. Life's too short to pollute it with that much ugly! Appreciate having more 'normal' channels like this forum to turn to for better information in a better environment.

Indeed. I noped out of there pretty quick after a hours-long string of racial slurs went unaddressed.

I'm 5'8" and have been in the obese BMI range off and on since elementary school. My lightest weight as an adult was around 145lbs for my wedding... down from ~235 after a loooot of extended and intermittent fasting. Cold hands and crashed metabolism aside, I was fairly happy there, although...

Yes, in this case, 30 = 30mg. At 5mg/dose, that would be six doses or six weeks per vial. How much bac to add is up to you, but it is often done in multiples that make the math easy. In this case, you might add something like 1.5mL, which would result in a concentration of 20 mg/mL, and a 5mg...

As far as I know, CanTydes and Tydes are completely unaffiliated, with the former being a known scammer and the latter being a reputable domestic dealer.

Same here. Shipped from domestic warehouse.

One word of caution there - unlike GLP1 agonists, testosterone is a scheduled substance. My personal risk tolerance has me sticking with my telehealth provider for TRT.

I was Rxed both. I asked my provider if there was a preference in sequencing, but he said not really in his experience. *shrug* I’m hoping for more lean mass preservation than I managed with prior weightloss.