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How frequent are the injections for TRT? Are they subq or IM?
AlphaMD's Answer
At minimum injections should be twice weekly due to the half-life of the hormones (how long until half of the medication has left your body). It can be increased in frequency from there but the majority of men sit at twice weekly.
Ideally it is subq, 85-90% of our patients use subq over IM as it takes less knowledge, hurts less, and is a bit better at managing Estrogen.
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