confusedman
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I'm a 23 year old grad student who had to go see a urologist for some incidental but benign finding. At the end, I randomly brought up that I had been feeling sleepy/tired/fatigued recently and requested a testosterone check. This was around 4PM --> Test was 233
I am now following up with an endocrinologist who had me get a morning panel of Test, LH,FSH. According to him if I'm under 300 again and we don't find a cause, he will start me on TRT.
I lift recreationally 5'10 165lbs hovering between 10-12% bodyfat and am pretty healthy but don't care for gaining any extra mass like most people here (my test is 500, I need testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) types of people). So I honestly don't want to go on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). I am tired often and can sleep up to 13-14 hours at a time, but then again my sleep schedule is out of whack and some days I get 4 hours of sleep, while others I get 10. My libido is fine. I'm also very stressed with a huge workload, which has only increased, which may play a big role in all this.
I feel as though I can just suck it up and get a better sleep schedule, manage my time better and get through this without testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). I'm sure there's a lotta people with test on the lower side of normal (300s) that don't even know it and do just fine in life. The thought of being on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for life is weird as hell.... getting shot in the @$$ every week or two for life is just inconvenient, and on top of that kids my age don't get on this stuff. More of a 40 year old with declining test thing. And it almost feels like if I didn't request that initial test level, I wouldn't even care/worry about this. One side just seems like high test would be nice but another side is praying I get a value of 301 or something so I don't even have to think about going on it. What do you guys think?
I am now following up with an endocrinologist who had me get a morning panel of Test, LH,FSH. According to him if I'm under 300 again and we don't find a cause, he will start me on TRT.
I lift recreationally 5'10 165lbs hovering between 10-12% bodyfat and am pretty healthy but don't care for gaining any extra mass like most people here (my test is 500, I need testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) types of people). So I honestly don't want to go on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). I am tired often and can sleep up to 13-14 hours at a time, but then again my sleep schedule is out of whack and some days I get 4 hours of sleep, while others I get 10. My libido is fine. I'm also very stressed with a huge workload, which has only increased, which may play a big role in all this.
I feel as though I can just suck it up and get a better sleep schedule, manage my time better and get through this without testosterone replacement therapy (TRT). I'm sure there's a lotta people with test on the lower side of normal (300s) that don't even know it and do just fine in life. The thought of being on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) for life is weird as hell.... getting shot in the @$$ every week or two for life is just inconvenient, and on top of that kids my age don't get on this stuff. More of a 40 year old with declining test thing. And it almost feels like if I didn't request that initial test level, I wouldn't even care/worry about this. One side just seems like high test would be nice but another side is praying I get a value of 301 or something so I don't even have to think about going on it. What do you guys think?
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