XXY Gel Problems

	Possible problems with Androgel?
	Received August 15, 2000, on the AAKSIS e-mail list, from Mark Halstead. Hi all, Recently, I've been a big promoter of the new AndroGel. Until today. Within 30 - 45 minutes of applying my AndroGel dosage, I started getting a tingling in my hands and fingers. Over the next hour, the tingling grew more intense and spread up my arms to my shoulders. As the intensity worsened, I also grew weaker. Was hard to keep standing. I was out today job hunting. Walked 2 blocks to the building where I got some applications and then started to feel weak. Decided to go another day when I felt better. I sat down for about 5 minutes looking over the material. After resting a bit, I decided to go back to my car. I only made it about a block and a half before I felt like I couldn't go any further. Felt really fatigued and drained. Sat on bench for 10 more minutes before I felt like moving. Made it to car, and hurried home . It took 6 hours for me to start to feel better. I had ate before I left and it wasn't that hot out. Got so tired I even took a short nap. Top After I woke up, I decided to dig out the info on the Androgel, and look up some of those side effects that I had no idea what they were. Asthenia means weakness and happened in 1% of the patients in the clinical trial. I must fall into that lucky 1%. Next one that rang a bell, was paresthesia. Means Numbness and tingling especially in arms and ankles. Paresthesia occurred in less than 1% of the test subjects. Lucky me. That described it perfectly. It's been happening for about a week but each day has been getting worse. At first, I chalked it up to being stressed out. Been a lot of that lately. But today was way too intense for that. Besides I felt great before I put the gel on and was even looking forward to getting a new job. When I saw the endo last Monday, I told her something felt different just couldn't describe it. Couple days later, I started feeling like I did before when I was on the shots. The way you feel on that 12th day and you won't get your shot until day 14. A bit anxious but for no reason. Next came some hand tremors which I hadn't had in ages. A couple days later, the hand tremors precipitated the tingling sensation in my hands. I felt a bit lethargic too, but I chalked it up to the antibiotic I was on. Not on it now. The tingling is hard to pinpoint, it's all over my arms. At it's worst I can feel it in my shoulders, too. But it feels more noticeable in my joints which is a funny feeling. At times, yesterday and today, I've felt a twinge of numbness in my upper lip. After the worst of the tingling is over, I feel really drained. Top I loved the ease of applying the gel and the added muscle tone that I was starting to get. But I can't take it with episodes like today. I admit that this scared me. I'm calling my endo first thing in the morning and I refuse to take any more of it. I hate that I have to go back to the patches or even the shots but it will be better than this. Mark Halstead 47, XXY Top Return to News Return to testosterone Return to Treatment Aneuploidies \| E - Mail Lists \| Feedback \| \| Gender/Intersex \| International XXY Sites \| Links-Canada \| Links for Parents \| Medical Dictionary \| News \| Qu'est-ce Que le Syndrome de Klinefelter (XXY)? \| Site Information \| Site Search \| What is XXY? \| XXY Perspectives \| Top This page first created: May 24, 1999 Bottom

Possible problems with Androgel?

Received August 15, 2000, on the AAKSIS e-mail list, from Mark Halstead.

Hi all,

Recently, I've been a big promoter of the new AndroGel. Until today. Within 30 - 45 minutes of applying my AndroGel dosage, I started getting a tingling in my hands and fingers. Over the next hour, the tingling grew more intense and spread up my arms to my shoulders. As the intensity worsened, I also grew weaker. Was hard to keep standing.

I was out today job hunting. Walked 2 blocks to the building where I got some applications and then started to feel weak. Decided to go another day when I felt better. I sat down for about 5 minutes looking over the material. After resting a bit, I decided to go back to my car. I only made it about a block and a half before I felt like I couldn't go any further. Felt really fatigued and drained. Sat on bench for 10 more minutes before I felt like moving. Made it to car, and hurried home . It took 6 hours for me to start to feel better. I had ate before I left and it wasn't that hot out. Got so tired I even took a short nap.

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After I woke up, I decided to dig out the info on the Androgel, and look up some of those side effects that I had no idea what they were. Asthenia means weakness and happened in 1% of the patients in the clinical trial. I must fall into that lucky 1%. Next one that rang a bell, was paresthesia. Means Numbness and tingling especially in arms and ankles. Paresthesia occurred in less than 1% of the test subjects. Lucky me. That described it perfectly. It's been happening for about a week but each day has been getting worse. At first, I chalked it up to being stressed out. Been a lot of that lately. But today was way too intense for that. Besides I felt great before I put the gel on and was even looking forward to getting a new job.

When I saw the endo last Monday, I told her something felt different just couldn't describe it. Couple days later, I started feeling like I did before when I was on the shots. The way you feel on that 12th day and you won't get your shot until day 14. A bit anxious but for no reason. Next came some hand tremors which I hadn't had in ages. A couple days later, the hand tremors precipitated the tingling sensation in my hands. I felt a bit lethargic too, but I chalked it up to the antibiotic I was on. Not on it now. The tingling is hard to pinpoint, it's all over my arms. At it's worst I can feel it in my shoulders, too. But it feels more noticeable in my joints which is a funny feeling. At times, yesterday and today, I've felt a twinge of numbness in my upper lip. After the worst of the tingling is over, I feel really drained.

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I loved the ease of applying the gel and the added muscle tone that I was starting to get. But I can't take it with episodes like today. I admit that this scared me. I'm calling my endo first thing in the morning and I refuse to take any more of it. I hate that I have to go back to the patches or even the shots but it will be better than this.

Mark Halstead
47, XXY

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