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What are the symptoms of low testosterone?
- Low Energy
- Weight gain or increased body fat
- IRRITABILITY
- Mental Fogginess
- Restless sleep
- Night sweats
- Decreased Sex Drive
- Difficulties with concentration and memory
- Wrinkling skin
- Depression
- Hair loss
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Muscle Loss
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Agitation
- Infertility
- Difficulty losing weight
What causes low testosterone?
With age, the amount of testosterone in his body gradually drops. This natural decline starts after age 30 and continues (about 1% per year) throughout men’s life.
There are many other potential causes of low testosterone, including the following:
- Aging
- Acute (short-term) or chronic (long-term) illness
- Alcohol abuse
- Liver cirrhosis
- Chemotherapy due to cancer
- Metabolic disorders such as hemochromatosis (too much iron in the body)
- Pituitary gland dysfunction
- Medications, including opioids, hormones used to treat prostate cancer, and steroids (such as prednisone)
- Chronic renal (kidney) failure
- HIV/AIDS
- Inflammatory conditions such as sarcoidosis (a condition that causes inflammation of the lungs and other organs)
- Kallman syndrome (abnormal development of the hypothalamus, a gland in the brain that controls many hormones)
- Klinefelter syndrome (a genetic condition in which a male is born with an extra copy of the X chromosome). Also called XXY syndrome
- High levels of the milk-producing hormone prolactin
- Obesity or extreme weight loss
- Uncontrolled type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Congenital defect (present at birth)
- Obstructive sleep apnea
- Estrogen excess (usually from an external or environmental source)
- Previous anabolic steroid abuse
- Severe primary hypothyroidism
- Pubertal delay
- Radiation exposure or prior surgery of the brain
What are the benefits of testosterone compounded medications?
- Safe and high quality: Uses only the highest-quality form of testosterone that meets the strictest safety and requirements established by US professionals
- Custom doses: Upon instruction from the doctor, compound medication dosages are tailored to fit the patient’s requirements perfectly
- Affordable: Compounding pharmacies typically offer medications at a fraction of what commercially available testosterone therapies cost
- Convenient: Aside from customized dosages, compounding pharmacies can also personalize the form medication, making it more palatable, easier to take, and combined with other hormones such as chyrsin and DHEA
MALE HORMONE THERAPY COMPOUNDED MEDICATION OPTIONS
| TOPICAL (ALONE OR IN COMBINATION) | DOSAGES | COMMON DOSING |
| Testosterone | Any | 2–20% |
| Progesterone | Any | 0.50% |
| Chrysin | Any | 5.00% |
| DHEA | Any | 5 mg/g – 10 mg/g |
| ORAL CAPSULES | ||
| Danazol | Any | 12 mg – 40 mg, once daily or every other day |
| Anastrazole | Any | 0.25 mg, once daily, every other day or every third day |
| Danazol and Anastrozole | Any | 12 mg/0.25 mg – 40 mg/0.25 mg, once daily or every other day |