Any female athletes here that can help me with this?

Hey all you lovely ladies!!

It has just come to my attention that T gets used up ( if I am understanding it correctly! ) when doing hard exercise! I dance 3 hours a day, 5 days a week. Soon to be 6 days a week.

I am on E, P and now, for the last few months, T.

I had really bad joint/bone pain and swelling after nearly a year and a half on only E and P and until I added the T and I am finding that it is taking A LOT of T for these symptoms to go away completely. I haven't yet done any blood tests since starting the T.

I am wondering if my quite intense physical schedule is creating this/a need for more T than I would have were I to be more sedentary... This would certainly be an explanationf or the larger amounts I am needing to take in order to get my low T symptoms under control...

Do any of you have any experience with anything along these lines? did you find that you needed to take more than usual or more than other women because of your exercise/athletic schedule?

Thanks so much in advance!