First MONTH of AndroGel | Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) | Review — Transcript

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1. 0:00welcome back to drug talk everybody in
2. 0:01today's video i wanted to share with you
3. 0:03my one month experience of trying
4. 0:05androgel or testosterone replacement
5. 0:08therapy so in this video there are three
6. 0:10things that i'd like to cover with
7. 0:12regards to androgel or testosterone the
8. 0:14first is why i got prescribed
9. 0:16testosterone in the first place the
10. 0:18second is how things are going so far
11. 0:20and the third is what i expect from this
12. 0:22medication in the future so why did i
13. 0:24get a prescription for androgel well
14. 0:27obviously the answer here would be that
15. 0:29i got my blood levels checked for my
16. 0:30testosterone during my routine blood
17. 0:33work at my last appointment and it
18. 0:34turned out that my testosterone levels
19. 0:36were just below the normal recommended
20. 0:38range now i have a good relationship
21. 0:40with my physician so we talked about it
22. 0:42for a long time and after talking about
23. 0:44my goals and he was giving me some
24. 0:46information back we decided that
25. 0:48starting testosterone replacement
26. 0:49therapy was the right choice for me
27. 0:51so there are three main reasons why i
28. 0:53wanted to get this prescription after
29. 0:55having my blood levels read and again
30. 0:57after talking about with my physician
31. 0:58and the first one is that i didn't want
32. 1:00to be put at a disadvantage
33. 1:02in terms of exercise and strength
34. 1:04building muscle building because i do
35. 1:07put in a lot of work my exercise routine
36. 1:09is pretty much that i do 250 push-ups
37. 1:12every other day i do eight kilometer
38. 1:14rucksack marches as often as possible
39. 1:16and i lift weights regularly and i found
40. 1:19that recently over the last you know
41. 1:20eight to ten months i really wasn't
42. 1:23getting the results that i feel like i
43. 1:25should have been getting after putting
44. 1:27in so much work the second reason that i
45. 1:29wanted this prescription is because i
46. 1:30noticed which is uncharacteristic for
47. 1:32myself this time of year i had very low
48. 1:35energy levels now typically during the
49. 1:37winter season when i experienced
50. 1:39depression associated with bipolar
51. 1:41disorder my energy levels would be low
52. 1:43but come springtime my energy levels
53. 1:45would go back up again now this year
54. 1:47that did not happen and my energy levels
55. 1:49remained low so i knew that this could
56. 1:51be a potential
57. 1:53benefit of using this medication so
58. 1:55again that this factored into the
59. 1:56decision making on top of the exercise
60. 1:58factor
61. 1:59and the third factor that made me want
62. 2:01to get this prescription was that my
63. 2:03libido or scx drive trying to be nice to
64. 2:06the algorithm here
65. 2:07was very low compared to what it
66. 2:09normally is for myself now i will admit
67. 2:11i do have a 10 month old child now so
68. 2:13that could just be a factor of a new
69. 2:15child in the house obviously my
70. 2:17priorities have changed it's a normal
71. 2:19thing that happens
72. 2:20with men after having a child but it's
73. 2:23just something that is important to me
74. 2:25and again the exercise being the main
75. 2:27thing for me i knew that this could be
76. 2:28another benefit from this medication so
77. 2:31it factored into my decision making
78. 2:33so how is it going so far well obviously
79. 2:35it's still very early in my testosterone
80. 2:37replacement therapy but i will say off
81. 2:39the bat that i do notice a positive
82. 2:42benefit in my energy levels as well as
83. 2:44my libido or scx drive i wasn't
84. 2:47expecting to get these benefits so
85. 2:49quickly but i gladly accept these
86. 2:51benefits and i hope that they continue
87. 2:53on moving forward
88. 2:55i think it's too early to really touch
89. 2:56on any benefits with strength building
90. 2:58or muscle building however i will say
91. 3:01this could be a coincidence but doing
92. 3:03all those push-ups since starting
93. 3:05testosterone replacement therapy i did
94. 3:07manage to switch and be able to become
95. 3:09more advanced and do one-arm push-ups so
96. 3:11that's a benefit that exists now i'm not
97. 3:13sure if it's from the medication or if
98. 3:15just a coincidence because i've been
99. 3:16doing the push-ups for so long but hey
100. 3:18it's something that i noticed so i
101. 3:19figured i'd share it with you now what
102. 3:21do i expect in the future with this
103. 3:22medication so like i said i'm happy with
104. 3:24my current energy levels and my current
105. 3:26libido so i hope that that just
106. 3:28continues on into the future but i do
107. 3:30expect to have more success in terms of
108. 3:32muscle growth as well as fat burning as
109. 3:35i as long as i continue my strict
110. 3:37exercise regimen
111. 3:39so as i move forward with my
112. 3:40testosterone replacement therapy using
113. 3:43androgel
114. 3:44i will keep you posted with more regular
115. 3:46videos like i do with the other
116. 3:47medications that i take but that's all i
117. 3:50have to say for today so until the next
118. 3:51update talk to you then