Dr. Louise Newson

So I thought, well, I know it's going to take him quite a few weeks for the appointment to come through with an endocrinologist.

So in the meantime, I can't watch him suffer because his quality of life is so awful.

And I'd found a diagnosis and the guidelines are very clear.

It was low enough.

Yeah.

So anyway, I gave him some testosterone and then I got a letter of complaint back from the endocrinologist that went to the senior partner and I got hauled in front of them and said, how dare you?

He's got a risk of stroke because he'd had a mini stroke, a TIA many years before.

And I said, well, my understanding is this is natural testosterone.

I gave it as a gel through the skin.

It's the same structure as the own testosterone.

There's no risk of clot.

Very different if I'd given him a synthetic testosterone, of course.

And they wouldn't have it.

And it was so awful.

And I was about to leave that surgery for my clinic.

And the last time I saw him and his wife, they said, well, we've still got some left.

We're using it.

But we've been to the endocrinologist and they've said you can have a very low dose.

But the problem is he's so tired he's not able to drive.

But they said, well, maybe you could just not drive on a motorway and drive on the A roads.