My level is 52

[joe3man]

I am three time cancer survivor with two fakies. I have been on a 4mg patch for approximately two years. I have never really felt "normal" at all since I lost the remainder of my last testicle last year. I slowly have began to feel even worse. The hot flashes, the mood swings, the anxiety, the snapping at people and so on and so on. I told my doctor I wanted rechecked earlier than my 6 month checkup to see what my testosterone number was. I belive that approximately 6 months ago my number was in the 200-250 area so it was in the low number of normal for a person of my age of 38. Well I got my number back and it was a call that made the nurse reading it over the phone say "oh my it's 52." My urologist was out of the office in surgery so I was unable to talk to him. Well so I thought. The nurse said she would put a message into him and have him call tomorrow. Well approximately 15 minutes passed and a cell number came across my phone and it was my doctor. He said "wow that is amazingly low". I told him I knew something was wrong as I could feel it.

He said since I had a large supply of my patches to double up on them and call him in a week and see if I notice any difference. He said he wants to get me on the gel to get it up there. He said he doesn't want me walking around with 15 patches on so the gel maybe the ticket.

Have any of you on here ever had it come back that low? I am not feeling the best I know that.

Just wanted to find out what others thought.

[Aegean]

3 time survivor? Sorry that this bloody disease has put you through the ringer that many times!

Needless to say, what your uro suggested is a temporary fix. What you need to do is see an endocrinologyst specialized in male hypogonadism. You need to have a full hormone panel and be followed regularly now that you are devoid of all natural production.

[joe3man]

Thank you for the response. I had thought about that but I assumed that my urologist would be able to handle my testosterone. The more I think about it that he may be grasping at straws trying to see what works. I just hate going to doctors and adding another one, an endo., does not excite me.

[Davepet]

You should also push to get those numbers up higher than low normal, since obviously you weren't feeling right even at that level.

Dave