Methyl test

[SFW]

I read 1/4 of all test scripts are actually MT. Is this true?

Why would a doctor prescribe this for test replacement when cream and 'jects are available?

What is the logic?

 

[brundel]

Ignorance perhaps.
Alot of dr's are not hip to the whole HRT thing.
They basically see it as scripting you steroids that will carry long term potential health risks.
As far as I know Methyl test is not 1/4 of the scripts.
Andriol may be...but it is not methylated it is only oral. The intention is for it to be absorbed through the intestinal wall.
It would make no sense for a dr especially to script a methylated oral steroid for long term use because there are long term health risks associated with the use of methylated steroids including but not limited to:
Elevated liver enzymes
Increase in LDL (often severe) and lowered HDL (also severe)

These common sides alone would erase such a drug as a candidate for long term use.

Test cyp in low (hrt doses) does not really have the potential for these sides.
In some LDL may slightly elevate but it is manageable with fish oils and plant sterols.

With a methylated Steroid LDL can frequently rise hundreds of points....Far beyond the range fish oil or anything else aside from perhaps statins sould control.

Creams and gels do not really have these sides.

I have used all myself and test Cyp is far superior to all other options.

 

[2B1]

Where did you read that?

 

[brundel]

You mean did I copy it from somewhere?
I just wrote it.

 

[brundel]

or did you mean him

 

[SFW]

Oh. I read it on steroid.com

And it actually says 1/3

But perhaps as brundel said, andriol is included in that statement.

To understand the history of Methyltestosterone, we need to go back to the 1930s, when the structure of the hormones estrone, testosterone, and progesterone was revealed and understood more completely and their ability to be synthesized from cholesterol was noted. It was a logical step for researchers to realize that a very simple chemical modification of the natural hormone would produce an orally active compound. By the early 1950s injectable testosterone, progesterone, and the subject of this profile, Methyltestosterone, occupied almost 25% of Cibas pharmaceutical turnover. (Karl Huesler & Jaroslav Calvoda, Pharmaceuticals Division, Ciba-Geigy). Despite the elevations in liver function that oral testosterone preparations can cause (and Methyltestosterone is no exception to this), these drugs still constitute approximately a third of all testosterone prescriptions filled in the United States (Westaby, D., Ogle, S.J., Paradinas, F.J., et al Lancet, August 6:261, 1977).

Read more: Methyltestosterone - Steroid .com​

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So when a doc prescribes oral test in any form, its based on his opinion that it will be a temporary thing?