I am a type 2 diabetic. Low SHBG is par for the course with type 2 diabetes and so is hypogonadism. I was building muscle with a total-T of 240, a free-T of 8.2, and an SHBG of 22. I had no low-T symptoms other than lack of libido and non-responsiveness to phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) inhibitors...