Testosterone Enanthate in BNF & on NHS

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Hi Chris

Just been to 2006 BNF and extracted this for T Enanthate:

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Intramuscular

Testosterone Enantate(Cambridge)

{PRIVATE " TYPE=PICT;ALT=Prescription-only medicine " }

Injection (oily), testosterone enantate 250 mg/mL. Net price 1-mL amp = £8.33

Dose

By slow intramuscular injection, hypogonadism, initially 250 mg every 2-3 weeks;

maintenance 250 mg every 3-6 weeks

Breast cancer, 250 mg every 2-3 weeks

On 23 May 2006 at 10:09, chis_az wrote:

> Via the NHS there is the cheap mix of Sustanon 100 or Sustanon 250

> and there is virormone/testosterone proprionate.

>

> Ethanate is not in the BNF as far as I am aware and the protocols in

> the NHS are strict, which means even if there was and it was a high

> dose- you could still not get 100mg per week.

>

> Unless your consultant was willing to prescribe off label/ignore the

> protocols and the BNF.

>

> Because my case has always been treated as borderline (it isn't

> remotely borderline in reality) I have had nothing but

> endocrinologists shit on me, certainly not help me with off label

> medication.

>

> If you are borderline in the UK you get treated like complete shit.

> I know this because I have had two years of absolute hell and many

> other men have faced the same.

>

> I am treated borderline but my testosterone ratio off treatment is 3-

> 1. Shippen talks about old men getting as bad as 8 or 7-1 and I am

> 3-1, am 31 years old and treated like a complete twat.

>

> E2 70pg/ml off treatment for three months taking no androgens!!

>

> testosterone between 158ng/dl - 259ng/dl

>

>

> I would put money on it that there isn't a single bloke on this site

> with E2 that high off treatment.

>

> But can I get arimidex on the NHS, can I get a flexible

> endocrinologist willing to listen sooth my fucking soul by actually

> treating me with compassion like a human being- NO!!

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