Getting subcutaneous injections of T cost?

[CameronJL]

Hi,
I made my first appointment with a doctor to get started with getting put on testosterone ( ). I asked the office what to expect from my first and second appointments, and I was told that the first appointment would be blood work, and then the follow-up appointment would be to go over my blood work, and if everything is okay they will give me the prescription (but won't be giving me my first shot). It's quite a drive to get there and I would have to have a separate appointment for them to teach me how to inject, I guess.

So my question is for anyone who ever went to a nurse or doctor just to get their injection/learn how to self-inject, how much did it cost you? I don't have insurance so I'm just talking out-of-pocket. I would much rather find a nurse nearby me to do it the first few times so then I can work up to doing it myself.

This is also my first post so I'm still figuring out how to post/where to post and how to use the site. Let me know if I should have posted this somewhere else or if there's already a topic for this!

Thanks!

[Rambler]

I'm still waiting for the bill from my office visit to learn how to do it, but you can honestly save yourself the hassle and just check YouTube for a tutorial if you're confident enough. I was shown IM and subcutaneous even though I'm just doing subq and it took about 5 minutes to show me how they didn't even have me practice on the piece of silicon the medical assistant demonstrated with. It really is super easy, I think I got a more thorough tutorial when I had to learn how to give my old cat fluids once per week for his kidney failure.

[Barb99]

My very first injection I did myself with an RN explaining what to do, where and why. I took all of 5 minutes to teach me. It's really not very difficult.