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Testosterone Therapy for Women
I have a three-page handout I give to women who want to try testosterone. It exists because there is no other way to do this. It tells them that the medication I am prescribing has no FDA-approved version for their sex, anywhere in this country. It tells them insurance will almost certainly not cover it, and to budget roughly $130 out of pocket. It tells them to ignore the instructions printed on the pharmacy label, because those instructions were written for a 200-pound man and following them would deliver roughly ten times the dose I intend. It tells them to squeeze out a pea-sized amount of gel — about half a gram — from a packet designed to be emptied in one application, and to make that packet last ten days.