That's a great question. Personally, I'm on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and I started out with my family doctor, who is well-known, extremely conservative family doc, in my town, and he is employed with the biggest medical care organization, that owns two of the major hospitals in my City, and who has built a new medical school, also in this City for new med students. He originally diagnosed me with low T, several months before I turned 40, this past spring. However, the dosage that he put me on was so low, I didn't gain any benefit with it.
I then went to an anti-aging/HRT clinic, and now I am taking up to 300mg of cyp. a week, along with an additional 100mg of prop. a week. My first 10 weeks caused my musculature to explode and I gained approximately 25 extra lbs, and that was just my upper body workouts!! I had the gym staff, and friends, make comments, or come out and ask, "Are you on ROIDS or something?!!" In my naive enthusiasm, I began to share the 'gospel,' of hormone/testosterone replacement therapy to my friends and fellow gym buddies. However, I quickly learned that I was getting stares, and was the subject of gossip, that I was on ROIDS and that I was getting some quack doctor to just write quack prescriptions for T cuz I wanted it.
At first, when people would ask me if I was on ROIDS, and I would give a half truth of, "I'm hitting the gym hard, taking protein and vitamin supplements," but anybody could look at me and tell that my gains were not from just taking vitamins. I feel guilty/dirty for not being more honest, so, in the future, I'll probably tell them that I am supplemented with testosterone, but there are a lot of people that I will not tell that to cuz I know that I will gossipped about and put in the category of an illegal ROID user, which also brings about an assumption of unsavory character.