I also had this experience with a doctor. He wanted me to come in to his office every week for my injection so I saw another doctor and began my trt journey. Easy peasy when you put in a little bit of effort.
For me it’s a no brainer. Health is my number one concern as it should be everyone’s. It’s important for me to see a doc and regularly pull labs and talk about them with a professional. It’s also great to have prescriptions and just be legal. My testosterone sits in my medicine cabinet or suit case with no fucks given as it’s sitting in the box it came in with a Walgreens label on it. It’s also a great peace of mind knowing my testosterone was made with higher standards.
I pay $10 for a 10mg vial of activis (previously aka watson). Yes, I have insurance but even without it you can use a goodrx card and buy it for less than $40.
At first to get the process going I had to pull labs to show I had low T. Then once put on trt I had to come back in two months to pull labs to show how I responded to the dose I was on. From then out the doctor only wants to see me every 6 months but I push that to 7 months. While at the doctors office he says, see you in 6 months and then I walk up the the counter and make an appointment 7 months from that time.
Just trying to paint a picture here of how easy it is. Once every 7 months I go see a doc which takes about 1.5 hours of my time, I have peace of mind knowing I’m running pharma , that I’m perfectly legal to have it and most importantly is that I’m being health conscious. Quite honestly it makes me cringe to think of the idea of running trt from products made by numerous UGLs for the rest of my days.