Hi!
I am not sure if this is the right place to post but I have low T (total t is 103, im a 27 year old Male). Often my legs get super tight and stiff as if i have done leg day - it feel like walking through mud and whenever this happens I start struggling to focus my eyes. I know i have obvious low T symptom, but does this sound like an implication of Low T? There is little specific i can see to these symptoms on line (aside from muscle weakness). Has anyone had any similar experience?
You know you have low T. The testosterone level of a 90 year old. What are you asking?
My legs turned in concrete when my testosterone took a nose dive off a cliff in 2015, I know exactly what you are talking about and scored a TT at 120 ng/dL. Your TT levels are lower than my fathers who scores at 291 and his is 87 years old.
You more than likely have very low SHBG and if confirmed there are only a few types of protocols that will work, very frequent injections everyday or EOD.
Your symptoms are low testosterone, of this Iām certain. You wouldnāt by any chance have stopped a medication recently?
To be honest, I didnt realize that it was as low as a 90 year oldā¦I was basically just asking if this could be connected to low t and not another issue that needed dealing with (I could find little other than āmuscle weaknessā and fatigue which are vague terms). I just wanted to see if anyone has had these specific symptoms or close approximations.
Yikes OK. I am sorry to hear that! Did the symptoms improve? It is re-assuring in an odd sense that it is connected to the low t and not some other issue that needs dealing with.
Actually my SHGB is 50.82, which i believe fits the normal range?
I have not stopped any medication recently! (Aside from a brief stint on Clomid which was partly to address the low T).
@borisa
With 100 total T you likely have more issues than your legs. If youāre 27 you may not even know what having a decent T level feels like.
Your SHBG is at the high end of the range and while normal, when SHBG is high and will decrease FT levels and turn it into the inactive portion of testosterone. Just because your SHBG is ānormalā doesnāt mean itās healthy, look at the population, it is more unhealthy (obesity) than ever and that is the new normal.
Letās talk more about normal, normal 70 years ago was men having triple the testosterone levels (1500 ng/dL) back then, every decades since, each new generation is showing lower and lower testosterone and more infertile every decade. Normal 10 years from now will look very different, as a race we will be infertile by 2040 and that will be the new normal and is unacceptable.
When you visit your doctor you are being compared to all the other unhealthy people in the population which is normal, we as a society should strive for an āoptimalā state of health, but the insurance institutions are more concerned with profit and growth of the company.
We pay hundreds of dollars per month for health insurance and the standards for treatment are set ridiculously low to where you have to have the hormone levels of a 80 year old man with type 1 diabetes and cardiovascular problems at half the age to get approved for treatment.
Healthcare in this country was dead the moment Medicare rolled out just as all the doctors had known beforehand, gone are treating the symptoms and the reference range was born and doctors began putting all their chips on reference ranges and most ignore the symptoms, well the symptoms are what brought you to the doctors office.
The insurance institutes have rigged the game and the house always wins.