mooncobra
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I have friends who went to their general practitioner to try and get a referral for an endocrinologist. But they have younger doctors not far out of med school who are up to date with all the new information on T. Their regular doctors ram blood work and if they were low, they were given T. The doctors said that these days a lot of doctors are up to date and unless you have other underlying conditions you don’t even have to go to an endocrinologist. I told a handful of friends about my situation and guys who felt off, tired, slept really bad, or had no more libido at just 45 went and inquired about it and a couple ended up having pretty low T levels. Their docs bring their bay levels up to what their level would have been at if they were 30 and healthy. They are now doing really well. They actually look younger and feel great. It wasn’t u til I was around someone on a regular basis that I noticed their physical appearance change as well.Ha! Thanks Stoivo.
Yeah, I hear ya mooncobra; that fits with what I've heard. Thanks mate.
Might be tricky to find someone local 'cause I don't have transport. Repeated visits and all that. Plus, I'm being forced to move and don't know where I'll end up; my fate is in the stars, so to speak, but I'm not gonna forget to give this a big look-in. Thanks again mate.
Even if you are not mobile, and you have a good doctor, you might only have to go in a couple times the first month, and after that, if your T dosage is dialed in properly, you go in just once every 6 months for a check in and blood work.
I remember the nights of tossing and turning, desperately waiting to be overcome by an egregious form of slumber, knowing I would wake a couple times over the 3 to 4 hours of miserable and poor sleep. Then guzzling coffee the first few hours of my day. And then, mid day, having a couple more intensely strong cups of coffee. Yet my tolerance was high, so I felt nothing from the coffee except a mild alertness. I would stop caffeine mid day in hopes of quickly falling asleep. Of course that didn’t happen.
As I cluelessly entered the realm of androgyny boy, I became more irritable, beyond fatigued, and my libido vanished into thin air one day. I was so tired and run down I didn’t even notice. As I continued my journey into becoming a shapeless, sexless creature, I glimpsed myself in the mirror and when I did, I was offended by my own reflection. I had become physically offensive.
All I had left was misery, and a bright spot. Guitar. It was my saving grace as it was the one thing that always made me feel better and cheered me up. Without it, oh man, I don’t even want to think about the possible outcome in the life of mooncobra.
When I started T, things quickly started becoming much better. An elevated mood was so needed and I felt so much better mentally.
Bro, life is too short not to try every possible course correction. I’ve noticed the older you get, the faster time passes. Remember being a kid and looking back at your life? It seemed as if you’d been alive for a VERY LONG TIME!! But hey, remember being 20 or 25 and looking back and thinking, “wow, life is passing by pretty quickly!” And then at 30 or 35, you thought, or I did at least, “holy Mary mother of Christ!!!!!!!!!! But LIFE IS PASSING WAY TOO QUICKLY!!!!!” And when I hit 40, forget about it, that was straight up stress inducing. I was floored at how fast life was passing. So I went I for my T tests and learned I was on the road to becoming androgyny boy and I was pissed.
I even remember uttering to myself, “WHY ME???!” Yes, I actually used the eternal cry of the loser, so eloquently pointed out to me in my youth by my father. I remember thinking, “the eternal cry of the loser sounds really bad! I no longer wish to say such things! I must earn the respect of father! Wait! am I a loser?” Then quickly pulling back from the precipice of the shame spiral.
On top of realizing that life was flying by, and the older I got the faster it passed, I also realized that it was nothing short of a miracle that I was ever born in the first place. So, I had to do whatever was necessary to maximize the quality of my life.
Life is short and it passes way too quickly.
