A Swede who has been sick since 2013

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#41

@tisho1012

Yep, I do agree that you first need to get that T up in the late teens/early 20ish range to feel your best.

Frankly speaking, TT is all I ever needed to work with. Never bothered with bioavailable T under “most” circumstances. I see many, many Men here and elsewhere with undue worries about FT, Bioavailable T, Pregnenolone, Progesterone et Al. These could all be pivotal markers in “isolated” cases that warrant testing, however.

From my personal experience: LH, TT, E2, AM Cortisol, DHEA-S, TSH, FT4, FT3, Body Temp, Prolactin, Liver, Kidneys, Vit.D, Ferritin, & CBC can be used to draw many conclusions and setup way-forward. Excuse my lengthy intro.

Back to your query, hard to say if popping joints is caused by low T. That said, E2 is suspect zero in my book. As I said, your current level is in a good range for “most” men given that other markers mentioned above are optimal, but try and raise your TT to drive up your E2.

I’m very optimistic this would resolve your issue.

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#42

No worries about the lengthy intro @doomed80 , the more info the better :slight_smile:
I am trying to get TRT here in UK but the GPs are assholes. When I did my last TT blood test I went to a private laboratory and paid for it, when I got the 11.2 reading I was adviced to check my FT, I went for the Bioavailable T as the difference in the price was not big anyways. I was told that I might need TRT from the doctors in there, hope I could get it through them without having to deal with those dumb GPs! I have been to an andrologist too like an year ago, when I told him that my T at this time was 13nmol/l he got surprised and told me, quote “Oh, this is not normal for your age!” Then I did blood tests again to confirm that, the TT came up exactly as I told him, 13nmol/L, the LH was 2.4U/L, the FSH was 3.7U/L, a week later after that I got a letter where this guy was saying that everything is fine with me and they don’t have to dig deeper into this :smiley: WTF! So yeah, here in UK is big struggle to get TRT…

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#43

I don’t get it, I had some specific improvement and in the same time extremely down period and now I feel totally hopeless. Nothing gets better really for me. My muscles are waisting and my skin is loose and fat on my ass hips and stomach really ache. I went totally downhill today, the loonlieness kills me the most.

All My Friends getting children and I’m trying to hang on to people who still have some time but most parts I’m by myself. I’ve tried girlfriends but it’s impossible because my dick doesn’t work. The worst part is that I am not me anymore. My only hope the last year’s is this “incredible” Baylor study and the rumours already stated that they are going to just release one part. Man my shoulders totally disappeared, yesterday so friend told me that Iooked like I had a chicken breast… What the fuck happend?

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#44

I understand you, i feel the same unfortunally

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#45

Vi är med dig grabben, du är inte ensam. Vi sitter i samma båt. Vi kommer att reda ut den här stormen. Om du behöver nån att prata med skriv till mej.

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#46

I just found out after a urology visit that I now have plaque in my penis, I’ve noticed something hard s couple of month ago and a little bit of curve up and I am now terrified it will develop to full blown Peyronie’s diesese in the future, what to do?

They gave me E-vitamin to eat for 3 months, that’s all…

#47

I’d ask the urologist.

I’d probably look at the Peyronie’s forums too.

#48

As a fellow Swede I can attest to this 100%. I have been preaching the same for years.

Swedish primary healthcare is utter shit. I know people who have litteraly died because doctors didn’t take them serious and denied them tests just to save money. Thank you socialism, I love to pay taxes so I can get denied healthcare but pay for someone’s else’s!

Our emergency care is top notch though.

I have this to, the skin on the throat/neck is most noticeable. Look my post in the facial changes thread. I’m starting to think my chin has lost some size to. Maybe it’s only in my head but I’ll start measuring it.

This is borderline high. Mine is 120/60 since I got PFS. But ideally you want the systolic to be 90-110. Something fishy going on with the heart and/or blood vessels for sure. Also indicted in Baylor study.

I have this to I believe. Just got referred to a uro, but haven’t got any appointment as of yet. Don’t masturbate without a 100% hard penis and use lube is my best advices (or just let the penis rest). Ubiquinol (CoQ10) might help it from continuing.

With that said, how have you been feeling lately? It’s such a gruesome disese, but as you can see you’re not alone!

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