Thanks for that drug info. Oral agents to deliver testosterone, are not really efficient. Males for example are never given oral, but use topical or injected for that reason.

So I would think your intake is not delivering a high amount orally. The reason for this is that the testosterone passes thru the liver after being in the GI tract, and the liver really metabolizes it out. Food and drugs absorbed orally go thru the portal system thru the liver first before entering the rest of the body's blood stream. This is called "first pass" phenomenon.

Doses by injection for males typically start at 100 or 200mg a shot.

And in reference to Rrae's question I don't know of any testosterone OTC product. There are anabolic steroids which orally are being monitored closely now by the FDA...they have some androgenic actions. I don't know what their status is now however OTC.

The progesterone creams typically are from Wild Yam, and are thought not to be really active as hormone supplements.

There is a way to pump up sex hormone production by the body OTC, and that is called pregnenalone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnenolone

http://healthlibrary.epnet.com/GetCo...chunkiid=21848

This article is one of many suggesting that some hormones may improve sensory pain issues at the spinal cord level:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18434133

Occasionally the Traumatic Brain Injury forum here has posts about using progesterone for brain injuries/concussions.
If you search "progesterone" on that forum you'll find those links.

So the bottom line is that using an oral pill for a female, is common, especially in the menopause treatments, and has been around for many years. It does not have dangerous high dose potential therefore.