Low testosterone • Diagnosed hypogonadism • Monitored treatment
Consultation R900. Treatment from R700 a month, plus blood tests from R530 paid to the lab.
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Prescription Required. Subject to independent medical assessment.
Oryx facilitates access to licensed doctors and compounding pharmacies.
Your treatment is given as an injection. Your doctor shows you how at your consultation, and everything you need comes with it: syringes, needles and swabs.
Your dose and how often you take it are set by your doctor from your blood results, and adjusted as you go. A treatment plan usually lasts four to eight weeks. Blood tests are repeated in the first few months and then at intervals your doctor sets. Monitoring is not optional on testosterone treatment.
We would rather you heard these from us than found them later.
Fertility. Testosterone suppresses sperm production and can cause infertility that does not always fully reverse. If you want children now or later, say so at your assessment. It changes the conversation completely, and there are other approaches.
Thickened blood. Testosterone raises red cell production, which raises clotting risk if nobody is watching it.
Prostate. No treatment without a baseline PSA, and none at all if you have known prostate or breast cancer.
Sleep apnoea can get worse on treatment.
Oestrogen conversion can cause breast tenderness or swelling. Manageable, and monitored.
Heart risk has been argued about for years and the evidence still is not settled. Your doctor will discuss it against your own history.
Skin. Acne and oily skin are common early on.
We will not prescribe if you have prostate or breast cancer, untreated severe sleep apnoea, an already raised red cell count, or if you are trying to conceive. And not if your blood tests do not support the diagnosis, however much you would like them to.
This is usually long term. Once you start, your body reduces its own production, so stopping means levels drop back, often lower than before for a while. Worth understanding before you begin rather than after.
You will notice this page does not tell you the name of the medicine or what is in it. That is deliberate, and there are two reasons.
The first is the law. South African medicines law is strict about how prescription treatments may be described to the public, and stricter still for medicines a pharmacy prepares for one named patient. Where the law is not clear cut, we take the careful route rather than the clever one.
The second reason matters more. What a treatment might do for you depends on your history, your examination and your results, and read cold off a web page that is easy to misread and easy to talk yourself into. Nothing is being kept from you. Your doctor will go through all of it, including exactly what you are being prescribed and why, before you decide anything.
