pilot14
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5 or 6 years ago, (34 yrs old then) Talking with dr. with some life issues, he suggest getting blood work done. Comes back says Low T. Puts me on androgel, etc etc. Things pick up life comes back to normal, have sex drive again, get married. Have a physical about a yr ago (diff. dr. that put me on the HRT, but current Dr. knows about it) anyways, BW comes back with high prolactin. Get referred to endo, have MRI, given cabergoline to reduce the prolactin, things come back to normal, have sex drive again. Though endo says he wants me to start to plan on getting off the Androgel, start a slow taper etc.....for the request in next paragraph.
Whoops, wife hears her clock ticking wants kids. Work on that project, no success. She goes and gets BW and her stuff worked up, Her body is slowing down and they start doing whatever routine they do with her. Well everything comes back normal, (albeit slowed down for her) so they look at me. Her Fertility Dr. discusses the androgel, and having done some reading with the suggestion of tapering off, I figure for the length of time I've been on HRT, that I will probably need some help getting body jump started. Dr. agrees and says lets do it this way. So his way was cold turkey off the androgel for 8 weeks, come in for more tests. Lo and behold, my body seems to be working as there are swimmers being made again, though on the low range of normal. So I bring up the other meds to help me out. He says he suggests HCG and Clomid. He has me go get blood work, and then prescribes HCG and Clomid.
Now, coming off the androgel sucked. and still sucks to this day. Fatigue, though not as bad as before I started HRT is around. Sex Drive. ZERO, Zilch, nada, completely asexual. Not even wood at any point of the day or night. Enough help from wife and it works, but it's hard when one could care less if she helps or not, or even if we have sex.
So now I sit here, and really wonder where these Dr's have put me, and have two new meds which I'm trying to figure out what really they are going to do, good or bad? Haven't taken them yet and seeing as I found this board and seems fairly active, I'd post up my last blood work results and see what anyone thinks. Unfortunately the BW is only test and FSH LH Est. Each time I get bw, I ask for them to do complete workups, but I guess I have to figure out how to fill out the Lab sheets for them.....grrrrrrrrrrr Anyways, last BW, everything was in "normal" range, except for Estrodial, which is way high.
Estrodial - 90.8 normal: non detectable - 56 median: 29.7
FSH - 3.71 normal: .7-11.1 median: 3.8
LH - 2.34 normal: .8-7.6 median: 2.4
Test - 426 normal: 249-836
Free Test - 10.3 normal: 8.1-25.1
So with those results, Dr. has sent over Clomid 25mg/day I believe (might be 3xweek it's not sitting in front of me)
and HCG just showed up today, and trying to figure it out....it says 10000iu (mix 1ml dilutant and inject .15 ml solution 3xWeek)
So anyone have any insight with the limited info I have? I basically just want to get back to feeling somewhat normal again, and let the rest fall into place. As I've read here and elsewhere, just getting tired of Dr's looking at a symptom and throwing half assed solutions to it. There has got to be a better way....
Whoops, wife hears her clock ticking wants kids. Work on that project, no success. She goes and gets BW and her stuff worked up, Her body is slowing down and they start doing whatever routine they do with her. Well everything comes back normal, (albeit slowed down for her) so they look at me. Her Fertility Dr. discusses the androgel, and having done some reading with the suggestion of tapering off, I figure for the length of time I've been on HRT, that I will probably need some help getting body jump started. Dr. agrees and says lets do it this way. So his way was cold turkey off the androgel for 8 weeks, come in for more tests. Lo and behold, my body seems to be working as there are swimmers being made again, though on the low range of normal. So I bring up the other meds to help me out. He says he suggests HCG and Clomid. He has me go get blood work, and then prescribes HCG and Clomid.
Now, coming off the androgel sucked. and still sucks to this day. Fatigue, though not as bad as before I started HRT is around. Sex Drive. ZERO, Zilch, nada, completely asexual. Not even wood at any point of the day or night. Enough help from wife and it works, but it's hard when one could care less if she helps or not, or even if we have sex.
So now I sit here, and really wonder where these Dr's have put me, and have two new meds which I'm trying to figure out what really they are going to do, good or bad? Haven't taken them yet and seeing as I found this board and seems fairly active, I'd post up my last blood work results and see what anyone thinks. Unfortunately the BW is only test and FSH LH Est. Each time I get bw, I ask for them to do complete workups, but I guess I have to figure out how to fill out the Lab sheets for them.....grrrrrrrrrrr Anyways, last BW, everything was in "normal" range, except for Estrodial, which is way high.
Estrodial - 90.8 normal: non detectable - 56 median: 29.7
FSH - 3.71 normal: .7-11.1 median: 3.8
LH - 2.34 normal: .8-7.6 median: 2.4
Test - 426 normal: 249-836
Free Test - 10.3 normal: 8.1-25.1
So with those results, Dr. has sent over Clomid 25mg/day I believe (might be 3xweek it's not sitting in front of me)
and HCG just showed up today, and trying to figure it out....it says 10000iu (mix 1ml dilutant and inject .15 ml solution 3xWeek)
So anyone have any insight with the limited info I have? I basically just want to get back to feeling somewhat normal again, and let the rest fall into place. As I've read here and elsewhere, just getting tired of Dr's looking at a symptom and throwing half assed solutions to it. There has got to be a better way....