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My wife (38 5’5” 150lbs and caries it well). recently got her hormones checked. She has been complaining of being tired all the time and sleeps 8-9 hrs. She has also been gaining 1-2lbs a month for years. Her test levels were 16. I asked her doc about low t in women and she told me her levels were fine? from what I read women who were below 25 pre meno or 20 post menopause were low. Also her sex drive has been noticeably low. I know 2 kids and work will do that to. As does wedding cake. But she has commented tha she notices she “not in the mood as much” I’ve had her putting on dhea cream 2x a day. I think it’s helping but not sure. What are the best way to increase her test levels? I don’t think she will do injections don’t really want to ask. Although I think she would be open to anything else. Also considering Clen t3 to help with weight loss but don’t know enough about the sides yet and don’t want to do Anything to harm her. Besides test alone should help. What about something like Androstenedione? Anavar?
almost forgot to mention her cycle has been messed up sense Stop birth control a year ago. She get her period every 2 weeks for about a week. Her gyno has put her back on a progesterone birth control for this. She is going back after 3 months because it hasn’t worked. Any advice on this would be appreciated too.

She needs blood work. Total testosterone, TSH/Free T4/Free T3 to start with.


Women have about 10% the serum levels that men do. So the average healthy female level is about 50 ng/dL (10% of the average male's 500 ng/dL). It can vary depending on genetics, menstrual cycle phase, lifestyle, etc.


A female HRT dose of injectable testosterone would be anywhere from 10-20 mg per week (Again that's 10% of the male HRT dose). The goal is the bring up total testosterone, many HRT docs will bring women up as high as 150 ng/dL. Side effect sensitivity and virilization is genetic, some women can blast high doses and can stay feminine and other women are manly without touching a drop of AAS.


Benefits of female testosterone replacement therapy include increased sex drive, energy, well-being and confidence. Creams and pellets work too, bad there are more draw back.


Creams can get on kids and have to be applied daily, sometimes absorption is poor and titrating dose is not as easy as changing testosterone cyp dosage on the fly. Pellets require an in office procedure and if the dose is too high, you are stuck with the pellets or have to get them removed, again, a literal pain in the ass. Injections are the cheapest and most convenient. Creams tend to convert to DHT more due to higher levels of 5-alpha reductase on the skin