If you take testosterone

[Piggles1979]

I've been on HRT since Jan. Great....except for having absolutely no libido.
I've got an appointment with the BUPA menopause plan tomorrow and I imagine testosterone will be the way to go.
I'm so worried about acne though! Having struggled with my skin, this is a real concern.
If you are on testosterone, has this been an issue for you?
Thanks.

I know this is an oldish thread but Lifelover16 would you still say your hair hasn't rethickened? Have you tried anything that's helping to encourage regrowth?

I have had a couple of trials of testogel, taken exactly as prescribed by the Meno Clinic (NHS, a community gynae service) and I've just stopped it again at about 3 months because I was experiencing hair thinning. I'm gutted, especially since I didn't really see any appreciable uptick in libido. TBH I think reading some smutty fiction and using my Lem would be as helpful. And now I have much thinner hair and I think it's still falling out, 3/4 weeks after discontinuing the testogel.

The menopause specialist GP who prescribed it to me from the community gynae service said that hair thinning was not a side effect, but I've read that it can be. She suggested I was losing extra hair 'because it's autumn' and apparently we shed extra hair at this time of year. I've also currently got massively tender/painful breasts/nipples and this also coincided with taking testogel. While painful breasts weren't mentioned as a side effect, I've since read that this can also happen - men and women.

At my 8 week blood test, my levels were really high (6.3!!) despite only taking as I'd been told to take. She said, 'some women absorb it a lot more efficiently than others'. So I guess it's just my bad luck and perhaps was worth a try, but I'm so pissed off. And while 'male pattern baldness' was discussed on the phone as a possible side effect, alongside deepening voice and extra anger (neither of which have happened to me), it was never explained to me that the hair issue can also entail hair thinning. My hairline is the same as it was before.

I got it from Bupa but insisted on tostran (rather than andofemme) so I could in the long run convert to an nhs prescription. No issue with acne. However the BUPA person said to use on inner thigh and I got hair growth there so now put on shoulders. The hair growth on inner thigh has been only unwanted side effect.