I’m planning on getting HRT in the coming weeks, at least just to try for a month or so to see its effects as I can’t get blood tests currently. I’m going to be buying Climen tablets, which are pretty cheap, but in the guide I’m following it tells me to get Androcur tablets as well which are insanely expensive for me.
Is it absolutely required that I buy them, or can the small amount of cypro in Climen tablets be sort of sufficient?
Androcur is expensive but extremely effective. The general advice is you only need to take a quarter of a standard 50mg tablet per day instead of a whole tablet, but I found that once my T levels were suppressed, I could maintain an undetectable T level with only 12.5mg of Androcur per week. The 1mg of cypro in Climen might be enough for you to maintain low T levels, you’d just need to try and find out, but I would highly recommend taking Androcur for at least the first 3-6 months since that’s when most breast growth occurs and so has the highest chance to be impeded by high T levels.
My doc put me on a quarter pill every 2 days and it’s had nuked my T levels within weeks. The really important thing with cypro is that you give your liver time to clear all of it out before you put more in. There are scary risks with it but they’re almost completely mitigated of there is no long term build up. That’s why the 12.5mg every 2 days.