Please help. My friends husband gave my husband testosterone gel.

[CapnTrips]

Since its prescription, he'd have to see a doctor anyway if after five days he decides he likes it and wants to start using it (is five days long enough to tell?). He'll have to get tested to get a regular prescription.


If I were in his condition, I'd either get tested first, or start light exercise and change my diet before I'd start taking a drug that is linked to prostate cancer.

[McBain II]

Originally Posted by CapnTrips

Since its prescription, he'd have to see a doctor anyway if after five days he decides he likes it and wants to start using it (is five days long enough to tell?). He'll have to get tested to get a regular prescription.


If I were in his condition, I'd either get tested first, or start light exercise and change my diet before I'd start taking a drug that is linked to prostate cancer.

That link turned out to be false.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844907

There's very little risk (whether its cancer or just about anything else) to using testosterone even up to supraphysiological levels. Bodybuilders have been taking up to a gram a day for decades without much issue. A middle age man supplementing up to natural, optimal levels is not going to have a problem.

[CapnTrips]

Originally Posted by McBain II

That link turned out to be false.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/844907

There's very little risk (whether its cancer or just about anything else) to using testosterone even up to supraphysiological levels. Bodybuilders have been taking up to a gram a day for decades without much issue. A middle age man supplementing up to natural, optimal levels is not going to have a problem.

I'm not a doctor and therefore can't speak authoritatively on this, but there appears to be controversy over the use of testosterone replacement therapy and its potential side effects. For example:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androg...cement_therapy


Not that Wikipedia is the definitive authority either, but it does indicate the status of current research and the FDA's cautionary position. Bear in mind that a bodybuilder in his 20s or 30s has a different physiology than a man in his 50 or 60s.


Just seems to me that, before resorting to use of a drug that has some question marks attached to its use, its prudent first to try "low body impact" approaches. Changing your diet and exercising is harder than popping a pill or smearing ointment on oneself, but there's less risk involved. I do agree that a middle age man supplementing up to natural levels is probably not going to have a problem, but he needs to get tested first to figure that out.