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is $2400 too much to pay for a year of hormone pellet therapy?

By Anonymous May 30, 2009 - 1:45pm
 
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I've recently seen a doctor who requires a year-long commitment and payment of $2400 for pellet hormone therapy. This includes the pellets and insertion. She says the procedure is usually not covered by insurance. Blood tests are extra and covered by insurance. She says it varies but to expect the pellets to be replaced every 4 months, and usually sooner after the 1st insertion.

From what I've managed to find on the internet, this seems rather expensive to me, and i'm wondering what others have found in regard to the cost of this procedure (over the course of a year). Is this a reasonable price?

thanks for any information,
NJ

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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Well, I have to agree about highs and lows. When I had mine my testosterone peaked at 140 and I was pretty wild--so then it starts to drop off and even out and then go down and then you get new pellet and it starts over again. A friend just got her second round and she said the testosterone had her wired and irritable for 2 weeks. Regardless of what they say I don't see how it doesn't have some high and low just by the nature of the process.

August 7, 2009 - 4:37pm

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