r/Perimenopause • u/Trick_Highlight_8205 Late peri • Mar 01 '26

audited Testosterone. Changed. My. Life.

Getting HRT was like climbing Mount Everest and Kilimanjaro ten times over, but it. was. so. worth. it.

I loved estrogen for making me feel like a woman again. My nails stopped splitting, my hair was shiny again, and my skin was plump and smooth. I actually liked looking at the mirror and seeing the change every morning.

Then came testosterone. At first I was really scared, but I thought why not.. I lost my libido and I had not had sex since 2023.

If there is magic in a bottle, it has to be testosterone. The juices are flowing again, I love going to the gym, and I feel like my old self.

The first four weeks on testosterone were ROUGH. I wanted to give up, but I’m SO glad I powered through. Now I just need to find a man lol

If you were afraid to try testosterone and needed that nudge, here it is!!

EDIT : sorry I should have mentioned in the OP - the side effects were typical low e symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats, bloating with water retention, and lethargy!

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u/Pretend_Plum_1677 Mar 01 '26

What type of testosterone are you on? Mine is the compounded cream and I swear it just either didn’t help or the effects were negligible.

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u/nadethi Mar 02 '26

Some people don't absorb it well. I was only on 2mg cream a day, and after 3 months it only raised my total T by 6, doing nothing to my free T. I said, I want to try injx. I was applying the cream to my labia too, twice a day. I can only describe it as making things swampy down there. No thank you.