OffendHand
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This is a bit specialized of a question, but my partner doesn't want to ask her doc.
My partner hit that time of life a couple years back, and it's totally tanked her energy levels, mood, and sex drive. After YEARS of telling her to see an endocrinologist or gynecologist that specializes in treating the negative side effects of menopause, she finally went to see one. Unsurprisingly, her estradiol and progestin levels are nil.
But she'd been asking me to shoot her up with my own T, hoping that would improve at least the sex drive part. She has high total T levels, but very low free T levels. She did not tell her doctor that she'd been getting T from me. Her doctor said that she should get her adrenal glands checked (I think maybe she meant thyroid?, IDK.)
My understanding is that DHT, T and estradiol all bind to weakly to albumin and strongly to SHRB; if she has high total T levels, then most of it is bound up in the albumin of SHRB, right?
So, my question here is, does it seem reasonable to guess that, assuming that there's nothing wrong with her adrenal (...or thyroid...) glands, that maybe it's either that she has overall high SHBG levels or that there's more SHRB available to bind to the testosterone because her estradiol levels are essentially nil.
I think that pounding more T into her ass is probably not a great idea, as I have a strong preference for women over men, and she definitely identifies as a woman.
Ideas?
(...And yes, I know that she should talk to her gynecologist and 'fess up that she's been using my T. But she ain't gonna do that.)
My partner hit that time of life a couple years back, and it's totally tanked her energy levels, mood, and sex drive. After YEARS of telling her to see an endocrinologist or gynecologist that specializes in treating the negative side effects of menopause, she finally went to see one. Unsurprisingly, her estradiol and progestin levels are nil.
But she'd been asking me to shoot her up with my own T, hoping that would improve at least the sex drive part. She has high total T levels, but very low free T levels. She did not tell her doctor that she'd been getting T from me. Her doctor said that she should get her adrenal glands checked (I think maybe she meant thyroid?, IDK.)
My understanding is that DHT, T and estradiol all bind to weakly to albumin and strongly to SHRB; if she has high total T levels, then most of it is bound up in the albumin of SHRB, right?
So, my question here is, does it seem reasonable to guess that, assuming that there's nothing wrong with her adrenal (...or thyroid...) glands, that maybe it's either that she has overall high SHBG levels or that there's more SHRB available to bind to the testosterone because her estradiol levels are essentially nil.
I think that pounding more T into her ass is probably not a great idea, as I have a strong preference for women over men, and she definitely identifies as a woman.
Ideas?
(...And yes, I know that she should talk to her gynecologist and 'fess up that she's been using my T. But she ain't gonna do that.)