If you think your numbers where high wait till you see mine, last results are about 2 months old. LH 4.4 (range 1.7-8.6) Free Testosterone 0.26 (range 0.19-0.59) Testosterone 31.2 (range 8.60-29) SHBG 123 (range 20-55) Estrodile 88 ( below 160 is ok apparently)
Wow, that SHBG is very high!
Indeed it is, would like to try and get it within range to see if it makes me feel any different, but trying to get any help from medical professionals here in the UK is impossible especially with my above range Testosterone as well.
Mine has to be something equally as ridiculous. My total test is off the charts high and free test is still below the low end of the “normal” range, so I can only assume SHBG is the reason why. I didn’t have SHBG tested last time–I guess I need to do that soon.
It would certainly be the reason why.
Through TRT?
Now the real question… are our bodies doing that on purpose due to our sensitivity to androgens or would fixing that make us feel more normal?
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I’ve read that taking testosterone can lower SHBG, but because my testosterone is so high the Endo didn’t want to give me testosterone.
To my knowledge there doesn’t seem to be a distinct and proven method of lowering SHBG directly.
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The thing is my testosterone was always between 17 and 24.9 the first few years, ever since I’ve taking acidophilus complex it’s been consistently very high, highest reading was 35! I’m not sure if it s to do with acidophilus complex but since then been crazy high, oh and took very high dose 10 capsules a day.
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I give up trying to lower SHBG, every medical profession I’ve met here in the UK absolutely no help at all, one said maybe I have naturally high SHBG 
Anyone here with high SHBG may I ask what your body weight is? I’m pretty slim no matter how much garbage I eat, is anyone else with high SHBG slim and find it hard to gain any weight/body mass?
I am naturally slim as well, no matter what I eat it seems
6’ tall, 150lbs and I can eat piles of candy or fried food and it doesn’t matter, still no weight gain
I am 6’ 1 tall and weight 11 stone, I have never been able to put on any weight at all, At times I’ve eaten very unhealthy and a lot of it, I worked across the road from McDonald’s and ate that everyday 5 days a week 2-3 times a day and nothing. I’ve been slim my whole life, do you think we could of had high SHBG before propecia use? Maybe if some other users with high SHBG see this thread they can chime in and let us know there height and weight and if they struggle to gain any weight.
I too am naturally slim and can’t really put on any weight.
I’ve always been slim and always struggled to put on any weight my whole life, if it’s the same with you guys, do you think we’ve always had high SHBG and its not something propecia did to us? Or did propecia give us high SHBG and does it lower libido? If we’ve always had high SHBG then surely it doesn’t effect libido because mine was sky high before
Tough to say without test results prior to pfs, and I had never had any blood work until a few months before I stopped taking dut. I don’t know what they tested then but I think I’m going to call the doc and request a copy of those results. I wasn’t having issues at that point as far as I know
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Yup I am very slim have high shbg in 60s.
Can’t gain weight.
Have you always been slim even before propecia and struggled to gain weight?
I have always been slim
Yup always, never crossed 60 kg, mostly between 55-60, with lowest at 53.
5’-6" hight.