Does anyone live and function with a low testosterone

[jpk]

Does TRT also help heal sleep apnea? I sleep like $hit a lot of the time, but I'm fairly lean and live pretty healthy. I don't think I wake up much during the night, but I don't wake up feeling well rested most of the time. I always thought it was due to low test though..but sleep apnea also crossed my mind since I can be such a heavy snorer at times. Strange thing is I dream almost every night, lucid dreams and lots of them..so I must be getting deep sleep...

Gutter,

Dreaming takes place during REM sleep which is the most wakeful. This is just the kind of shallow sleep that you'd get if you have the sleep apnea. Also, you'll have no memory of awakening. You just wake up long enough to breathe. This can happen 15 to 100 times an hour. The Non-REM sleep is the restful anabolic sleep we need so much. I was stunned when I did my sleep study. I was healthy, thin and not a drinker. I still woke up 62 times an hour! Get the sleep study if at all possible. Fixing this condition can change your life (for the better).

 

[K1212]

It is extremely difficult to get the proper amounts of certain nutrients on a vegan diet. The assumption that this is a better diet is generally only held by other vegans. I also have observed that a lot of the rationalization for this highly restricted diet falls under a religious/spiritual/ethical umbrella.

It's a free country thank god, but I am having a hard time finding healthy strapping males that are vegan. This choice will limit your gains in the gym, health and testosterone levels. Heavy lifting and animal protein will get your test levels up.

Not trying to be a dcik, just worried that you're shooting your own foot off with a choice that you made when you probably weren't fully informed.

Well I will disagree with you on that, I have been a Vegetarian/Vegan for at least 10 years, and up until a instance last year where I was packed on this crowded bus thanks to my job, I had not been sick in 10 years, nothing, not a sore throat, not a sneeze or a cough that I can remember, I know there is alot of crap about how Vegans and Vegetarians are unhealthy, but I promise you that isnt the case

And I disagree on the animal protein and lifting will get my test levels up but I am not sure on that, all I know is before this injury/varicocele I had a sex drive of a horny 13 year old and my problem was controlling my libido and getting to many erections in public, now it is essentially dead, and I know my diet didnt have an effect on my testosterone, if anything it may have improved it as I felt healthier and hornier then in my younger years and as I continued to eat healthier even going from Vegetarian to Vegan and cutting out all the garbage food in my diet I felt my sex drive going up and my erections getting more frequent almost to the point of annoyance(again I thought this was a problem, ha what a ****ing problem to have)

I knew bringing up the diet would cause some speculation about my health and testosterone levels, but based on how I felt before and based on how my libido was and based on how fast and how full my facial hair was coming on, I promise you that wasnt the case, but you can believe whatever you want, if you took a blood test of my testosterone before this incident happened, I promise you it would have been over 1,000 that is how confident and self assured I was, and all the symptoms of a high testosterone were something I was feeling, I didnt even know what testosterone was(as far as men having different levels and it having an effect on your mood, demeanor, passions, sexual interest, libido) but it is something I took for granted and thought all men felt how I felt


I am personally sick of Vegans and Vegetarians getting bad raps(which I think stems from the meat and dairy industry who have to much to lose by people going Vegan and Vegetarian$$$$$$), it might not be good for muscle mass, but that was something I really wasnt in to , but like I said as far as my health and especially my sex drive I was in top shape A+++

 

[shyguava]

Men's Health forum at MesoRx..it's in one of the stickies

Okay thanks a lot.

 

[jpk]

Well I will disagree with you on that, I have been a Vegetarian/Vegan for at least 10 years, and up until a instance last year where I was packed on this crowded bus thanks to my job, I had not been sick in 10 years, nothing, not a sore throat, not a sneeze or a cough that I can remember, I know there is alot of crap about how Vegans and Vegetarians are unhealthy, but I promise you that isnt the case

And I disagree on the animal protein and lifting will get my test levels up but I am not sure on that, all I know is before this injury/varicocele I had a sex drive of a horny 13 year old and my problem was controlling my libido and getting to many erections in public, now it is essentially dead, and I know my diet didnt have an effect on my testosterone, if anything it may have improved it as I felt healthier and hornier then in my younger years and as I continued to eat healthier even going from Vegetarian to Vegan and cutting out all the garbage food in my diet I felt my sex drive going up and my erections getting more frequent almost to the point of annoyance(again I thought this was a problem, ha what a ****ing problem to have)

I knew bringing up the diet would cause some speculation about my health and testosterone levels, but based on how I felt before and based on how my libido was and based on how fast and how full my facial hair was coming on, I promise you that wasnt the case, but you can believe whatever you want, if you took a blood test of my testosterone before this incident happened, I promise you it would have been over 1,000 that is how confident and self assured I was, and all the symptoms of a high testosterone were something I was feeling, I didnt even know what testosterone was(as far as men having different levels and it having an effect on your mood, demeanor, passions, sexual interest, libido) but it is something I took for granted and thought all men felt how I felt


I am personally sick of Vegans and Vegetarians getting bad raps(which I think stems from the meat and dairy industry who have to much to lose by people going Vegan and Vegetarian$$$$$$), it might not be good for muscle mass, but that was something I really wasnt in to , but like I said as far as my health and especially my sex drive I was in top shape A+++

K,

Well you still got spunk brutha, so maybe its not so bad after all. Your condition is really a mystery though. I understand why you'd be frustrated. Perhaps an endocrine profile might enlighten us all as to what might be wrong.

It doesn't sound like you're a typical cheesehead either way. You don't eat cheese, I'm guessing that means bratwurst is out too. In fact, you probably don't watch the Packers or play Sheepshead. You're not fat or a boozer. Seriously, you need to move south. Sunshine and thinner women would probably fix you right up. I can't catch wood either thinking about most Wisconsin broads.:chick: