I'm sure there are several of these threads already but I was unable to find any in the search, so my apologies if that is the case.
I've been on T for almost three weeks now, doing a shot every two weeks, so only two shots so far. I've had one in each leg, I believe the first was subcutaneous and the second was IM, but I don't know why they switched. After both, my leg was extremely sore the night following the shot and the next few days. I don't know if this is common or not, but the IM was so painful afterwards that I couldn't walk up or down the stairs.
When I first began discussing T options with my doctor, I was very attracted to the option of the patches until my mom and I learned that they were $300 a month. My mom just checked with insurance, however, and they're mostly covered - we'd only have to pay about a dollar a day to do Androderm. My only concern is that despite my doctor saying that it works just as well as shots, I've heard from many people that transdermal delivery methods don't work nearly as quickly as shots do, and I'm trying to transition physically very quickly as I'm starting college in the fall and would prefer that most of the drastic changes occur before then.
So the TLDR version of my question is whether anyone has any insight as to whether Androderm works any slower than shots do.
