Background: I am 31, I have been on 10gms of AndroGel for about 8 months now. I was started at 5gms and bumped up after initial labs.
Labs from 4/05/05 - Blood Drawn at 10:50 approximately 4 hours after application.
Total T - 570 N 241-827 NG/DL
SHBG - 12 N 7-50 G/DL
Free T - 200 H 34-194 PG/ML
Bio T - 428 H 84-402 NG/DL
LH - 0.4 L 1.5-9.3 MIU/ML
DHT - not checked, but really needs to be. Doc just never does and my 1st Endo didn't seem to care what it was. <-- Searching for new Endo.
E2 - not checked, but was normal when using a higher dose, so I no reason to think that at a lower dose it would be out of range.
CMP all normal
Lipid panel all normal
Red Blood Cell Count 5.71 N 4.20-5.80 mill/MCL
Hemoglobin 17.3 H 13.2-17.1 G/DL
Hematocrit 50.9 H 38.5-50.0%
All other values for CBC normal
Platelet count in the low normal range though 185 140-400 THOU/MCL
My question boils down to, how can my Total T be in the middle of the range and my Free and BIO T be out of range. My H&H only concern me b/c I donated a pint/unit/bag full of blood just 2 weeks before this blood work was done, so I was expecting that to come back in the normal range.
Any comments, or suggestions would be appreciated. I would like to add HCG and have been trying to convince my Doc, based on previous Total T tests, I had some room to spare, now I don't see it happening, meanwhile my boys are going away quickly.
Again, thanks for your advice or comments
Labs from 4/05/05 - Blood Drawn at 10:50 approximately 4 hours after application.
Total T - 570 N 241-827 NG/DL
SHBG - 12 N 7-50 G/DL
Free T - 200 H 34-194 PG/ML
Bio T - 428 H 84-402 NG/DL
LH - 0.4 L 1.5-9.3 MIU/ML
DHT - not checked, but really needs to be. Doc just never does and my 1st Endo didn't seem to care what it was. <-- Searching for new Endo.
E2 - not checked, but was normal when using a higher dose, so I no reason to think that at a lower dose it would be out of range.
CMP all normal
Lipid panel all normal
Red Blood Cell Count 5.71 N 4.20-5.80 mill/MCL
Hemoglobin 17.3 H 13.2-17.1 G/DL
Hematocrit 50.9 H 38.5-50.0%
All other values for CBC normal
Platelet count in the low normal range though 185 140-400 THOU/MCL
My question boils down to, how can my Total T be in the middle of the range and my Free and BIO T be out of range. My H&H only concern me b/c I donated a pint/unit/bag full of blood just 2 weeks before this blood work was done, so I was expecting that to come back in the normal range.
Any comments, or suggestions would be appreciated. I would like to add HCG and have been trying to convince my Doc, based on previous Total T tests, I had some room to spare, now I don't see it happening, meanwhile my boys are going away quickly.
Again, thanks for your advice or comments
