your thoughs and ideas needed please.

[Guest guest]

hi

this is my story.

i am 36 and we are trying for a baby and no joy so i have been tested

and have low fertility. Light bulb goes off ! i have a referral mid

may with the urologist.

since the age of 21 i have had non stop depression. i have always said

to the docs i think i have a problem with testosterone and asked for

blood tests. they are always normal. my life is great, so i cannot

understand why i have depression. i am 13st of lean muscle, and very

active, don't smoke or do drugs and drink maybe 3 beers a week. i

already do the things people should do when they have depression.

i have some basic symptoms which never seem to change. they can be

more severe on a day to day basis. at the moment it is one day good

and one day bad etc.

what happens is like someone switching on a light. my body either

comes to life or stops working.

this is what happens:

energy stops - tired, head in a fog, poor concentration

appetite goes

muscles decrease in size slightly - not as chunky

don't need to drink as much water

stamina drops off

not as strong

skin becomes drier

breathing tightens up (cant get a nice big breath full)

sexual desire decreases

i take one tablet of the AD effexor per day and carbomazapine (used to

treat epilepsy commonly, nightly as a mood stabilizer. i have tried

many timed to come off these things but no joy. my symptoms come back

stronger and last almost permanently if i do.

one other thing, i had an undescended testicle and had it operated on

when i was 9.

my thinking is i have primary late onset hypogonadism - low testosterone.

any help will be appreciated.

i am in the uk by the way.

[Guest guest]

Low testosterone can make you feel like this and your levels can be in the low

normal range. In the UK they tell you your ok even if your levels are low

normal yet you can have the levels of a 80 yr. old man. Can you post your labs

with the ranges and units.

Here is a link to a site that show levels by age for both US. and UK units.

http://www.natural-hrt.com/andropause04.html

When I first got sick they told me after many tests but not one was

testosteone that I suffered from Major Depression and for 5 yrs. I was on every

kind of AD med on the market never felt better. Then I found out I had low

Testosterone and the meds were making it worse. I was taken off them and put on

TRT and in 30 days was back to work after being off 5 yrs.

marsaday1971 <jphenderson@...> wrote:

hi

this is my story.

i am 36 and we are trying for a baby and no joy so i have been tested

and have low fertility. Light bulb goes off ! i have a referral mid

may with the urologist.

since the age of 21 i have had non stop depression. i have always said

to the docs i think i have a problem with testosterone and asked for

blood tests. they are always normal. my life is great, so i cannot

understand why i have depression. i am 13st of lean muscle, and very

active, don't smoke or do drugs and drink maybe 3 beers a week. i

already do the things people should do when they have depression.

i have some basic symptoms which never seem to change. they can be

more severe on a day to day basis. at the moment it is one day good

and one day bad etc.

what happens is like someone switching on a light. my body either

comes to life or stops working.

this is what happens:

energy stops - tired, head in a fog, poor concentration

appetite goes

muscles decrease in size slightly - not as chunky

don't need to drink as much water

stamina drops off

not as strong

skin becomes drier

breathing tightens up (cant get a nice big breath full)

sexual desire decreases

i take one tablet of the AD effexor per day and carbomazapine (used to

treat epilepsy commonly, nightly as a mood stabilizer. i have tried

many timed to come off these things but no joy. my symptoms come back

stronger and last almost permanently if i do.

one other thing, i had an undescended testicle and had it operated on

when i was 9.

my thinking is i have primary late onset hypogonadism - low testosterone.

any help will be appreciated.

i am in the uk by the way.

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