I had to stop taking my testosterone due to monetary reasons and I'm looking to get back on it but my question is this.  Before I had to stop I went to see my general practitioner for an unrelated matter and told her that I was taking T now.  She asked how much and I told her my dose and she was surprised it was so little.  I was already questioning if I was taking enough because I wasn't really seeing much in the way of changes even though I'd been on T for 7 months at the time.  I figured that I was just being impatient and not seeing the things that were happening.

My question is once I'm back on T, how long do I need to be on it before I take a test to see what my levels are to verify that I'm getting enough?

My doctor never retested my levels after the ones before starting T. 

Edited for dosage.

so little? not so little.



no dosages allowed BTW

I've always heard that if you have just started T or have been on it for 0-11 months, the typical blood test will occur every 3 months.

From 12-23 months, every 6 months.  From 2 years on, every year (if at all).

Not everyone adheres to this cycle - but it's what I first heard and pretty much what my doctor did.

3 months is how long my doc wanted to wait after I started T to do bloodwork. She also did bloodwork before I started, to establish a baseline. She did make it sound like once my levels and dosage were stable for a while, we might eventually have to do it less frequently though.

I've had T levels checked only once from day one and that was about a year ago.

Seems like doctors have so many ideas about what is safe. My Endo left it up to me when to get labs drawn. She said she wasn't concerned about it. I took the initiative though and had them done last Summer.