Blood Work Results: What should I do next?

[Gilbert Grape]

I just received my blood work and my total test is still low after close to 9 months off...

32 years old
total test (288) 250-1100 ng/dl
free test percent (2.95) 1.00-3.10%
free test (85.1) 35-155.0 pg/ml

My question is what should I do? Try hcg for a few weeks?

Maybe post cycle therapy (pct) again? My doc wants me to go see an endo, maybe even put me on androgel.

Also, me and my wife are trying to conceive, will the androgel lower my sperm count?

 

[GymLift]

I just received my blood work and my total test is still low after close to 9 months off...

32 years old
total test (288) 250-1100 ng/dl
free test percent (2.95) 1.00-3.10%
free test (85.1) 35-155.0 pg/ml

My question is what should I do? Try hcg for a few weeks?

Maybe post cycle therapy (pct) again? My doc wants me to go see an endo, maybe even put me on androgel.

Also, me and my wife are trying to conceive, will the androgel lower my sperm count?

Congratulations. You apparently have low SHBG. The free testosterone results indicate that you are doing just fine. No need for Androgel or hCG or post cycle therapy (pct) or anything like that. Fuck the wife and get her pregnant.

 

[Gilbert Grape]

Cool, I was freaking out about the low test level and having to go on Androgel. Is the low SHBG something to monitor or treat? What is that exactly?

 

[GymLift]

Cool, I was freaking out about the low test level and having to go on Androgel. Is the low SHBG something to monitor or treat? What is that exactly?

SHBG binds to much of the testosterone in our bodies. When it does that, the testosterone becomes inactive. Free testosterone is the testosterone that is NOT bound to SHBG.

So the free testosterone is the active testosterone and that's what matters. Thus, total testosterone doesn't matter much and that test is often inaccurate anyway.

Nothing at all wrong with low SHBG. In fact, it is kind of a good thing.

 

[Gilbert Grape]

SHBG binds to much of the testosterone in our bodies. When it does that, the testosterone becomes inactive. Free testosterone is the testosterone that is NOT bound to SHBG.

So the free testosterone is the active testosterone and that's what matters. Thus, total testosterone doesn't matter much and that test is often inaccurate anyway.

Nothing at all wrong with low SHBG. In fact, it is kind of a good thing.

Interesting...Good news... Thanks mranak!!