What can he be thinking? The two are not in any way related. You will live longer on TRT.
Treatment with chemo or radiation zapped your testes?
Do you have pre-surgery hormone labs?
Did you then have?
- ED
- no libido
- low RBC, hematocrit
- anemia
- muscle wasting
- frail
- unsteady
- bone loss
- insulin resistance
- no hair below the knees and shiny shins
- thin skin with spider lines and pinched up skin on back of hand stayed up a bit “tenting”
With your cancer, did you loose much plumbing that would reduce absorption of minerals and nutrients? Do you take a B-complex with lots of B-12?
Any other labs?
TSH? - see last paragraph in this post.
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys - need more info about you
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.