Confused by blood test?

Jesse · Aug 4, 2015

There is two different sections on my blood work with total testosterone serum but the list different values? Any idea why this would be?

See attached.

Jesse · Aug 4, 2015

Of course they didn't upload

Let me try again.

Nelson Vergel · Aug 4, 2015

Your value of 688 is OK (the range is usually 350-1200 or so depending on the lab company). Your free T is over 2 percent, so that is good.

Jesse · Aug 4, 2015

Nelson Vergel said:
Your value of 688 is OK (the range is usually 350-1200 or so depending on the lab company). Your free T is over 2 percent, so that is good.

Do you understand where that 580 ng/dl value came from in the other section?

Gene Devine · Aug 4, 2015

Were these labs run the same day?

Why two different TT labs if so?

Tell us more about you and if you are symptomatic of low androgen levels.

Jesse · Aug 4, 2015

Gene Devine said:
Were these labs run the same day?

Why two different TT labs if so?

Tell us more about you and if you are symptomatic of low androgen levels.

same day. I don't know why two different values. That is my question here.

i don't know what you mean by symptomatic or low androgen.

CoastWatcher · Aug 4, 2015

Jesse said:
same day. I don't know why two different values. That is my question here.

i don't know what you mean by symptomatic or low androgen.

I believe Gene is looking to understand how you feel. Do you have classic low-T symptoms? If you are on TRT, what is your current protocol?

Jesse · Aug 5, 2015

CoastWatcher said:
I believe Gene is looking to understand how you feel. Do you have classic low-T symptoms? If you are on TRT, what is your current protocol?

I don't have low T symptoms at all since being on TRT. But yeah, classic low T symptoms are what lead me to treatment.

I usually take:
100 mg mon and thursday (200/wk)
300 IU HCG Wed and Sun (600 IU/wk)

The only thing I changed was I used 200 all on a monday and got tested the following Monday (before next shot). This was at my doctors request to wait 7 days. Then I went directly back to my 100/100 split.

CoastWatcher · Aug 5, 2015

Jesse said:
I don't have low T symptoms at all since being on TRT. But yeah, classic low T symptoms are what lead me to treatment.

I usually take:
100 mg mon and thursday (200/wk)
300 IU HCG Wed and Sun (600 IU/wk)

The only thing I changed was I used 200 all on a monday and got tested the following Monday (before next shot). This was at my doctors request to wait 7 days. Then I went directly back to my 100/100 split.

You divided a dose on your own, I take it, but this test is the result of a shift, from 100mg/twice weekly back to a single 200mg injection. You have a "trough," and wound up with two reported values. So, an altered protocol, a "trough" reading that produced two differing total testosterone levels. Is that the picture?