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Hello everyone,

I'm new here and never posted before. I haven't been diagnosed with

Hypogonadism, BUT, I am testing for it pretty soon. My doctor is order blood

work on the FSH and LH levels and I think others that I cant remember as

well. I believe I might have hypo or something similar to it because I've

been on the internet researching it deeply and the more I research, the more

I discover that I have the symptoms. The ones that are present are listed

below. I am 35 years of age which I forgot to mention earlier.

* Low sex drive

* Irritability/mood changes

* Facial hair/chest hair not growing properly

* Breast not developed like they should be for a guy

* Loss of muscles (never really had any to begin with)

* Depression

* Difficulty concentrating/confusion

* Hot flashes (feels like a small, short fever?)

* Fatigue

* Lack or assertiveness/aggressiveness (read that some experience it

from lack of male hormone)

When I went to my Primary doctor, he examined my testicle area and he said

that my testicle (only have one due to removal in my 20's) is small and

soft. So, he decided to do the blood work which I have to get done and he

also wants to test me for diabetes (which runs on both sides of my family).

He will also refer me to a urologist depending on how results come back.

I've been dealing with these symptoms for as long as I remember, but I

never really gave it a second thought because I thought it would be

something that I would grow out of eventually, but obviously I didn't. I

never had a steady girl friend because of it and I went through the torment

from family members and people questioning my sexuality because the lack of

relationships. I even had kids calling me out because I was 35 and didn't

have any children, it really got embarrassing. When I was younger, around

pre-teens, early teens, I was not into girls like my peers was and I felt

isolated. My parents noticed it too and said I would grow out of it later

down the line, so I just let it go and waiting around for years and as I got

older, nothing changed much. I just felt different from the others and

wondering why I didn't have the same feelings and desires like the others. I

even questioned myself if I was " gay " because of it, but that couldn't be

because I didn't desire males either, so I was thinking now what do I do? I

prayed about this recently and one day I just had the desire to go out on

the internet and look up low sex drive and that's when I start hitting all

this sites that dealt with low testosterone. I was thinking to myself " Is

this what I am suffering from? " So I kept researching it more and discovered

the some of the key symptoms of hypo and noticed that I had more of them

than I didn't have so this sent a up red flag with me and that is what

prompted me to bring this up to my doctor. So, hopefully I will get some

answers soon so I can go on with my life because this is really eating at me

and I feel I can't move forward until I do something about this. Even though

I haven't been officially diagnosed with hypo I decided to join the group

just to see what you guys are going through to see if this is really a

possibility in addition to my symptoms I posted above. Thanks for listening

and any advice or suggestions are appreciated.