“Equal time for the otherwise inclined” means - “I’d like to bang these older women” which is clear to a majority of regular commenters on Jezebel, since I’m a regular and they know who I am. So you’re quite wrong, there. This is the thread about older women we’d like to bang.

I had to tell my doctor that I wanted to try testosterone as a solution, and she sent me to an endocrinologist. The endo did all my bloodwork before we started, and monitored me closely for side effects - cholesterol increase is one.

Any/all of those are contraindications of larger doses of testosterone. If hormone levels are kept within normal ranges for women, all are unlikely, and all can be monitored, especially the cholesterol, which my doctor monitors closely. Those sound like excuses to not give her a trial run to me, based on “she’ll turn…

Yeah, I’m not worried. I monitor my health closely, and the risks are not as high as the are for men with much higher levels than mine.

Not if you work with an endocrinologist that monitors your blood work. It’s been really easy for me to do this, and this basically saved our marriage because we were so incompatible in libido. I’m SO much happier now. I get to enjoy sex again, and I have a much better connection with my spouse.

Yep, and you want to make sure you work with your doctor to get your bloodwork done before and through taking it to make sure your levels remain in a good area. I get mine prescribed through a local compounding pharmacy, but lots of other people order online through Strohecker’s.

Maybe, but it seems like if they keep it within normal ranges and monitor through blood work regularly, you can stay healthy. I go in once every three months or so to test again.

Within a couple of weeks. I imagine my levels were always pretty low and I just didn’t know it. I had been complaining to my doctor for a long time before I heard about testosterone and asked.

Nope. Not if you keep the levels low. That’s the reason you go to an endocrinologist and have them test your levels of hormone. Women have a normal range for testosterone, and mine was WAY under, almost non-existent. Once you start taking it, you make sure your levels stay in a normal range for women. Too much and you…

I actually had been asking my doctor about it for over 10 years, and she said nothing about testosterone. I found out about it when our couple’s counselor told us; we were in therapy for our ver disproportionate sexual needs. I marched back and asked my doc, and she said “well, there’s been some research on that, let…

True, but lots of women have no idea whatsoever that they may be deficient. No one tells them to get their hormones tested when they have low libido. I asked this question of my doctor for 10 years and got “there’s just no treatment for it.” It wasn’t until my couples counselor brought it up as an option and I took…

Well, yes, but when administered as a synthetically produce hormone, it’s prescribed as a drug to fix any number of health problems.

There is a drug to combat low libido in both men and women. Testosterone. I outlined how it has helped me immensely on another thread. I was way under normal levels for women, and when i corrected it with the help of an endocrinologist, it fixed it fast.

Low testosterone in women is one of the reasons for low libido, too.

Doctors who are too freaked out by the idea of women having more testosterone, I think. Girls are “not supposed to have boy hormones”. They might grow beards, or something. Nevermind that the levels are so low to get me to “women’s normal” that it would never cause that.

I asked my primary care physician, and she sent me to an endocrinologist to test all my hormone levels. The endo was able to determine “yeah, you are WAY low.” and prescribe me a testosterone cream. I have it custom compounded at a local compounding pharmacy, which is something you can also do online - Strohecker’s in…

I am not on the pill - but doctors who are smart enough to prescribe testosterone (in my case an endocrinologist) DO account for the pill in their testing and prescriptions. Taking testosterone (usually in a cream form) shouldn’t mess with the pill’s effectiveness.

Low libido treatment should start with measuring hormone levels, including testosterone levels. I’ll bet they’d find that women who report low libido have too low levels of testosterone in their bodies, which is not uncommon nowadays, because of all the junk in our food that messes with our estrogen levels.

There is a really easy drug to fix this available today - low dose testosterone. Women have it naturally in their bodies anyway, and it does have an effect on libido. When I was tested my testostrone level was WAY low, almost non-existent. I was given a low-dose cream, and my libido jumped right up to normal as soon…

There is a really easy drug to fix this available today - low dose testosterone. Women have it naturally in their bodies anyway, and it does have an effect on libido. When I was tested my testostrone level was WAY low, almost non-existent. I was given a low-dose cream, and my libido jumped right up to normal as soon…