StephCurryFtw
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Hi, some of you may remember me slightly from the old peakT site. Anyways, I am Jake. I have had low T since 14 and additionally low FSH, LH, and low IGF-1. I was diagosed with primary hypotestosteronism at age 18. My baseline TT before TRT during puberty was 162 ng/dL. I have had the lowest SHBG lab values I have ever known anyone exceot myself to have. I had a pituitary microadenoma show up at 16 years old on my anterior pituitary. Endocrinologist saw a sharp rise in prolactin and assumed prolactinoma, but four MRI scans later and nothing was found. By age 22, I had a fifth MRI scan and no pituitary microadenoma was found. No prolactinomas were ever found.
I was taken off TRT five times for varying durations. I had absolutely ZERO rebound of FSH and LH. My cortisol has always been borderline high. Mild hyperprolactinemia and was on 3 various antipsychotics for about a year in total before all were discontinued because they spiked my prolactin over 240 ng/dL.
My TT is now at 806 ng/dL. No change in prolactin really that is significant. I am 28, have OSA, am overweight somewhat, formerly a very committed and dedicated athlete in my college years and all throughout high school and middle school. My highest TT I have had is 906 ng/dL. My MOST recent TT was 762 ng/dL with a FT of 35.6 ng/dL (flagged as quite high for free T). My SHBG came back at 9.7. My lowest SHBG has been 5.6. Yes, 5.6 for SHBG before for me…
In 2019, my testes volume was ~5 mL. My starting volume was about 14 mL. I am now around 4 mL volume.
I’m only 28 and this is definitely looking like significant subfertility or sterility for me. I was not warned about testicular atrophy until being on TRT for 4 years.
Nobody I have ever met can relate to being in TRT as young as myself and with OSA and having been on 39 psychotropics since age 15-16, I doubt I will ever meet anyone that can parallel my life’s story even remotely.
Noboby my age understands the intricacies of negative-feedback with exogenous TRT hormone therapy. No HCG, Anastrazole, or Clomid whatsoever has ever been allowed for me to be on. My doctor told me if i ever started those illegally, he would discontinue my TRT (and I would get kicked out of college) which I am now entering my 9.5th year.
I am a total unicorn in the hormone world. Only maybe someone with testicular cancer, someone who’s had testicular torsion, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, a prolactinoma, etc. could possibly relate with me. It’s been an agonizingly long amd difficult thing to have permanently for someone only 28.
Yet, I am human. I exist and i wanted to share my story because it is extremely rare for someone like me started on TRT around 16 to have been on TRT roughly 12 years.
Rare things happen to normal people. My life is a testament to that.
Is all hope for fertility gone for me? I use 3 pumps of T Gel (generic Androgel) a day. Injections and Testopels did not please me at all.
I have chronic fluid retention and hyperhydrosis and mild polycythemia-vera (from mildly elevated hematocrit).
I was taken off TRT five times for varying durations. I had absolutely ZERO rebound of FSH and LH. My cortisol has always been borderline high. Mild hyperprolactinemia and was on 3 various antipsychotics for about a year in total before all were discontinued because they spiked my prolactin over 240 ng/dL.
My TT is now at 806 ng/dL. No change in prolactin really that is significant. I am 28, have OSA, am overweight somewhat, formerly a very committed and dedicated athlete in my college years and all throughout high school and middle school. My highest TT I have had is 906 ng/dL. My MOST recent TT was 762 ng/dL with a FT of 35.6 ng/dL (flagged as quite high for free T). My SHBG came back at 9.7. My lowest SHBG has been 5.6. Yes, 5.6 for SHBG before for me…
In 2019, my testes volume was ~5 mL. My starting volume was about 14 mL. I am now around 4 mL volume.
I’m only 28 and this is definitely looking like significant subfertility or sterility for me. I was not warned about testicular atrophy until being on TRT for 4 years.
Nobody I have ever met can relate to being in TRT as young as myself and with OSA and having been on 39 psychotropics since age 15-16, I doubt I will ever meet anyone that can parallel my life’s story even remotely.
Noboby my age understands the intricacies of negative-feedback with exogenous TRT hormone therapy. No HCG, Anastrazole, or Clomid whatsoever has ever been allowed for me to be on. My doctor told me if i ever started those illegally, he would discontinue my TRT (and I would get kicked out of college) which I am now entering my 9.5th year.
I am a total unicorn in the hormone world. Only maybe someone with testicular cancer, someone who’s had testicular torsion, Klinefelter’s Syndrome, a prolactinoma, etc. could possibly relate with me. It’s been an agonizingly long amd difficult thing to have permanently for someone only 28.
Yet, I am human. I exist and i wanted to share my story because it is extremely rare for someone like me started on TRT around 16 to have been on TRT roughly 12 years.
Rare things happen to normal people. My life is a testament to that.
Is all hope for fertility gone for me? I use 3 pumps of T Gel (generic Androgel) a day. Injections and Testopels did not please me at all.
I have chronic fluid retention and hyperhydrosis and mild polycythemia-vera (from mildly elevated hematocrit).
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