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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrTRT" data-source="post: 146859" data-attributes="member: 17686">Hey everyone,I had a though and felt I'd ask everyone. What do you think caused your hypogonadism? I was thinking about my etiology and realized I don't particularly have one. I did have an one sided orchiectomy (removal of testicle) for cryptorchidism, but that wouldn't have an effect on my pituitary and explain the low FSH and LH in the setting of low testosterone. So my etiology is truly central, ie hypogonadotrophic (low FSH and LH, low central stimulation) hypogonadism of unknown etiology, or as we love to say in medicine, idiopathic. I was recently speaking with an endocrinologist colleague who has a few, what she calls, IHHS patients (idiopathic hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism syndrome). I discussed my case and she noted similarities to her handful of other patients. ALL of them are in their 20s and 30s and all of them are in high stress, highly competitive fields (lawyers, doctors, investment bankers). She thinks the stress may have some root.Personally going back though, my testosterone was low even when I first checked it when I was in college, at which point I wouldn't say I felt stressed at all. So I'm curious. How many of you guys have an etiology? How many don't? Proving causation for stress would be almost impossible. I half joke on the last answer, but could it be something nutrition related? Or are we just not the greatest genetic examples?DrTRT</blockquote>