Irrelevance
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New here, brief rundown: 43 male
Went to doc 2 years ago thinking I had low test because of the symptoms:
Low libido
Weak erections
No morning erections
Irritability
Hypertension
Lack of motivation
Feeling blue or down.
He sent me out for testosterone (Serum testosterone)count - all I know is that he said it was 18.6 and that was considered to be in the normal range
Last November he put me off work for Social Anxiety Disorder and wanted to treat me for mild depression, I told him I wasn't depressed just feeling a little down but agreed to the meds anyways. I'm STILL off work and have just stopped taking all meds for depression and anxiety and have given up trying any others as they made me feel worse then before, there was no help from them. I asked him to try something alternative to work against the depression (why the depression ~ because it's something he knows how to deal with, hormone replacement for over-all vitality and well being isn't a necessity in his mind) We are back running the testosterone tests again, however this time it is down to 15.1 - that's a drop of 18.8% - but he still says is in the "normal" range.
Shouldn't there be a concern that it dropped so much rather than it's within "normal range"? We do not have specialists where I live so I am at the mercy of a GP. How do you convince your doc that being within the average normal range of the population doesn't mean it's a healthy, normal, good range for you? They have no benchmark to ascertain where I was to begin with..if I was normal at the upper end of the spectrum and am now down to the mid to low end - shouldn't that cause some concern?
Sorry am frustrated - I don't have a lot of options.
BTW - he ordered FSH and LH tests done - have to have that done in the AM tomorrow.
Does anyone have any advice as to how to handle it with him?
The logic to me isn't sound I guess...if A is the normal low and Z is the normal high then why would they think that the normal healthy low for me is A when my normal healthy low might need to be Q...
Any help and input would be appreciated ~ just went through hell on a bunch of different meds to fight a depression that was brought on by the meds themselves. Sadly I know now what depression really feels like.
Kind regards
J
Went to doc 2 years ago thinking I had low test because of the symptoms:
Low libido
Weak erections
No morning erections
Irritability
Hypertension
Lack of motivation
Feeling blue or down.
He sent me out for testosterone (Serum testosterone)count - all I know is that he said it was 18.6 and that was considered to be in the normal range
Last November he put me off work for Social Anxiety Disorder and wanted to treat me for mild depression, I told him I wasn't depressed just feeling a little down but agreed to the meds anyways. I'm STILL off work and have just stopped taking all meds for depression and anxiety and have given up trying any others as they made me feel worse then before, there was no help from them. I asked him to try something alternative to work against the depression (why the depression ~ because it's something he knows how to deal with, hormone replacement for over-all vitality and well being isn't a necessity in his mind) We are back running the testosterone tests again, however this time it is down to 15.1 - that's a drop of 18.8% - but he still says is in the "normal" range.
Shouldn't there be a concern that it dropped so much rather than it's within "normal range"? We do not have specialists where I live so I am at the mercy of a GP. How do you convince your doc that being within the average normal range of the population doesn't mean it's a healthy, normal, good range for you? They have no benchmark to ascertain where I was to begin with..if I was normal at the upper end of the spectrum and am now down to the mid to low end - shouldn't that cause some concern?
Sorry am frustrated - I don't have a lot of options.
BTW - he ordered FSH and LH tests done - have to have that done in the AM tomorrow.
Does anyone have any advice as to how to handle it with him?
The logic to me isn't sound I guess...if A is the normal low and Z is the normal high then why would they think that the normal healthy low for me is A when my normal healthy low might need to be Q...
Any help and input would be appreciated ~ just went through hell on a bunch of different meds to fight a depression that was brought on by the meds themselves. Sadly I know now what depression really feels like.
Kind regards
J