Talk:Androgen replacement therapy

Dab page for hormone therapy

I've added this to the Hormone replacement therapy disambiguation page.Skookum1 (talk) 16:07, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

"therapeutic indications" vs "accepted as treatments"

there's a big difference between what a medicine can be prescribed for and/or what a particular doctor or medical establishment recommends or is willing to do. I agree with this edit though I haven't read the ref. Just because the accepted use in North America does not include the other indications mentioned doesn't mean that's a global verdict; and sure enough there were times in the past when it was prescribed for things other than low testosterone levels (in fact in the '60s it was prescribed as a standard anti-depressant for men, though I'd have to find a cite for that). The allegation that this is a multiple article POV campaign is itself POV by dint of only wanting to talk about what Canadian/US doctors are willing to prescribe it for. Not German doctors, not Russian doctors etc. (in Australia deca-durabolin is, for instance, prescribed as a male contraceptive, or was at any rate). Telling only one side of the story to the exclusion of others, now that's POV.Skookum1 (talk) 19:39, 30 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm perfectly agree. Someone can not accept testosterone replacement therapy vs diseases like osteoporosis or diabetes mellitus, even if many scientific articles confirm that. I would like to see the citations of testosterone against depression (indeed depression is a symptom of hypogonadism) during sixties.--Testosterone vs diabetes (talk) 18:56, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

I know I saw it on a medical site long ago; it may be on http://www.andropause.com but there must be other literature on it out there, I'll see what turns up. Re osteoporosis one steroid definitely used in its treatment is oxymetholone (Anadrol), which I also remember big full-page ads in the Village Voice targeting AIDS patients re combatting muscle-wasting.....from Winthrop I think; that would have been around 1999-2000, which is when I was last in New York...Skookum1 (talk) 15:25, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

In Italy testosterone and nandrolone are accreditated and labelled as anti-osteoporosis drugs too. Anyway good insertion!--Testosterone vs diabetes (talk) 16:26, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

Title?

I think it should be better to call the article "Testosterone replacement therapy" because there are many types of androgen replacement therapies, for example mesterolone (Proviron) is not testosterone, but it is alwais an androgen replacement therapy.--Testosterone vs diabetes (talk) 21:36, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Citations please!

If you are going to write an article or edit a pre-existing one please include citations. Even the first line of this article has no citation (and personally I question its validity). If no citations are added I am going to butcher out all the 'opinions' in this article and leave it with only facts and objective content.