Testosterone and "Low T"

I always knew that there was a problem, but every time I would go to a doctor, they wouldn't actually tell me that I had an issue. This is Drew. I'm 38 years old currently. I live in Brooklyn, New York. Drew felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what until the Internet gave him a hint. Maybe this wasn't a mental issue. Maybe it was his testosterone. So Drew made an appointment with his doctor. And he ran the test, and my numbers were in the low two hundreds. But for some reason, he told me that that was fine. I don't need my numbers to be any higher, so he kinda gave me the runaround on that. But I know as a man, you know, that the way I was feeling, it it wasn't I I wasn't a 100% there. Right. So I didn't take his his word for it at all because I knew that there was a bigger issue underlying that he wasn't helping me with. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like he wasn't very sympathetic. Not not at all. Drew was struggling, and he knew that his testosterone level was relatively low for a man in his mid thirties. So he started doing his own research on Reddit. There's a lot of talk about testosterone on Reddit. There's a whole subreddit called, well, testosterone, with 200,000 members mostly talking about testosterone replacement therapy or TRT. Reddit kinda gave me more of the information that I was looking for because, like you said, in the real world and real people actually giving you real advice or or their situations. Eventually, Drew decided that TRT was right for him too. So he found a men's clinic in his neighborhood in Brooklyn and scheduled a visit. Do you remember your first shot? Yeah. I do remember. And it's it's kind of funny because when I as soon as I got the shot, I and I know for a fact this is a placebo effect, but my confidence boost was like sky high. I was walking around like, I felt like the man everywhere I went. And I know for a fact that it was the placebo, but I think it was it was like a new beginning for me. I was fixing something that I had a problem with for a long time, and it felt good to know I'm dealing with it. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that first shot was, like mentally, it was the best the best feeling that I've had. Drew kept going back every two weeks for his dose. And in a few weeks, he started to feel the effect for real this time. And as the weeks progressed, I started just getting emotionally, like, more confident. My self esteem would boost up. And that's when I knew something was happening because before I would have to fight for those feelings. This time it was I was just waking up with confidence and …