Thread: Androderm (testosterone patch)

When I first went on TRT, my doc said the patch and the gels were unreliable and not effective. She put me on injections once a week. My friends who are also on TRT usually started at 200mg every other week then ended up, like I started, on 200mg EW.

Thanks .V.

I just did some research on the test patch and the highest dosed patch is 5mg of test per patch...someone correct me if I wrong but that's all I found..

if I were to get the highest dosage (5mg per patch) that would only give me 35mg of test for 7 days...does not seem enough to me unless my endo had access to higher dosed test pacthes...

Originally Posted by bulldogz

Thanks .V.

I just did some research on the test patch and the highest dosed patch is 5mg of test per patch...someone correct me if I wrong but that's all I found..

if I were to get the highest dosage (5mg per patch) that would only give me 35mg of test for 7 days...does not seem enough to me unless my endo had access to higher dosed test pacthes...

Considering that post hysterectomy patients are often given estratest, which is a combination of esterefied estrogen and methyltestosterone, and the methyltest dosage is 5mg/day for these women...35mg a week...I'd say you are right, that's a very low replacement dose. Great dose for a woman though. Many women patients who are given TRT replacement along with their female HRT replacment drugs (those who still have a uterus can't get estratest because estrogen without progestrone is a shortcut to endometrial cancer)... get 25-50mg of enanthate or cyp a week without virilization. Yep, I'm in agreement with a lot of docs (who actually read and keep current) that the patch isn't the best choice.

I guess my question is how would I get my endo to switch from the patch to testosterone injections?

Will I have be on the patch for a few wks, get bloods and then see if the patches bring my T levels up to a normal 36yr old level...

like a trial and error type thing..??