Maybe if I had a medical condition, it would be different, but to take it as a response to normal, age-related lowering of testosterone levels, no way. For me, having my testosterone level go down as I reached late middle age was nothing but a relief. I could just mellow out and relax for the first time in my life. I didn’t have to be so competitive in everything. I’m not as good at sports and I’m not as valuable of an employee anymore, but honestly those are both fine. Who cares. I take time to smell the daisies. YMMV
Had to look up TRT because I don’t know medical acronyms all that well.
As for my opinion, I don’t care so long as the patient is fine with it and it’s safe for you to do so. What you do with your testosterone levels is none of my business since I’m not and will probably never be a medical professional.
To each their own, but similar to glp-1, not for me. I’ll just age naturally and do my best to maintain levels via diet and exercise.
I had one of the weirdest conversations with acquaintances at a lunch outing one time, and it was about them using testosterone to, uh, not look like Joe Rogan? Idk. They were all conservatives and certainly the first to be opposed to LGBTQ+ rights or other forms of gender-affirming care.
Sounds like gender affirming care.
Sorry to be snide. I don’t take TRT, but everyone should be able to do this sort of stuff without judgment. You only got one life.
I’m not trying to judge, more asking about how people feel about trying to change the natural aging process
I have concerns about its long-term effects. I remember around the turn of the millennium using hormone replacement therapy became fairly popular to help women get through menopause while minimizing many of the symptoms of menopause. Then they had to stop it because they realized it was killing a fairly significant number of those women, giving them cancer or something like that.
I personally don’t plan to take anything like that out of concern that we don’t know enough about its long-term effects. I wouldn’t try to prevent anyone else from doing so if they want to, of course; I just think it’s a questionable idea. We get old and die. Trying to fight that seems like trying to fight the ocean: ultimately a losing effort. Of course, I’ve been taking something to regrow my hair for over a decade because I was going bald in my late 20s and felt like that was too young, so I’m not exactly consistent.
100 homie. Sorry if it sounded like I implied that. Not my intent.
It’s gender-affirming care. So it should be widely available under the guidance of knowledgeable medical professionals.
I also wish that those who would limit the gender-affirming care of others would be the first impacted by their own bigotry.
“May you have the day you voted for.”
What is TRT?
Testosterone Replacement Therapy - a treatment used to raise low testosterone levels in men, often addressing symptoms like decreased libido, fatigue, and muscle loss.
And to OPs question, not a fan doing it if it’s not prescribed, and that’s also the constraints I would always do it in if my doctor said I needed it.
There are tradeoffs, but the biggest downside is it down regulates testosterone production in the body, and all the sexual side effects of not producing natural testosterone.
I think it’s a valuable tool, but it’s not a panacea, and needs to be closely supervised by a endocrinologist.
