Did anybody get gynecomastia from Testim testosterone gel?

[Wayne1985]

As I've written before, in addition to bitch titties, I've got a pretty bad case of erectile dysfunction (sweet life, huh?).  I'm 21 too; great.

My doctor gave me some Testim testosterone gel to get my sex drive up.  It is only temporary; I'll use it for a very short time to see if low testosterone is causing my limp unit.

Breast enlargement is listed as one of the possible side effects.  Anybody had this happen to him?

[reaper33]

dude you should have asked the same doctor who prescribed you the testosterone thing. and dont wait, time lost is opportunity lost

[Wayne1985]

I did ask him, but he did not really know because this isn't his specialty.

He's sending me to an endocrinologist next week to get some more things figured out.

[Hypo-is-here]

I thought you were prescribed clomid 

If you are taking this without prescription and under good medical guidance and appropriate pathology and ancillary meds if required it certain could cause gynecomastia.

[Hypo-is-here]

You can't guarantee that libido and ed issues will just automatically resolve by throwing new medications at them.  Even where these issues are totally testosterone or hormone related and you are on the right medications at the right dosages, it can sometimes take months to rectify.

Of course getting the medications and the dosages right can take far, far longer than that and at times require detailed pathology investigations and necessitate changes in medications, doses etc.

Even then that is when the issues are totally hormone related, but libido is very much ephemeral and can also be lowered due to depression, performance anxiety etc.  Ed can be caused by the previously mentioned problems and is notoriously multifactoral and certainly not always due simply to a hormonal cause.

I wish you the best of luck in terms of timing. 

What I would say is this in the short term;

get your treating doctor to prescribe Cialis (like Viagra).  It will not directly improve your libido, but it will help with the ed for your soiree and in doing so it might lesson performance anxiety (knowing it will not let you down) and in doing so indirectly improve libido a little.


In the long term I would say this;

Make sure you learn about your own condition and become as conversant in understanding your own pathology over time as your treating doctor.  That way you can help ensure your own health an wellbeing- because this is a condition that you trust doctors to get right on their own at your peril.  Learn as much as you can as fast as you can and ensure you are on the right med(s) at the right dosages and that you have the right doctor to help you deal with this condition the right way.

I have given you this before, I give it again because I cannot emphasis enough how important it is when considering my above point.

Books
Testosterone Syndrome- Eugene Shippen
Androgen Deficiency in the Adult Male – Malcolm Carruthers

Website for help

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/hypogonadism2/








 

[Wayne1985]

Thanks a lot man for the great post man.

[reaper33]

yo bro, i thought it was your endocrinologist who prescribed you the testosterone thing, now i guess it your gp, dont let these doctors play with your hormones, only an endocrinologist can prescribe you such medicines coz they specialize in reproductive hormones, my advice dude stop taking whatever you are taking, and see an endocrinologist as soon as you can. he can help you with the libido, but gyno has to be treated by a surgeon.

[Hypo-is-here]

Well picked up.  Yes perfectly right, gps really shouldn't be involved in prescribing unless under the guidance of an endocrinologist or andrologist.