My HPTA recovery log:
This is quite hilarious. I’m rolling around laughing on the floor. A total testosterone at 104 and an SHBG at 31. Talk about a pink elephant in the room.
The testosterone panel below was drawn by mistake and I ended up drawing labs at 3:25 pm!
I would love for some of the experience members on this forum to explain to me how I can have a total testosterone at 104 and have an SHBG of 31. By all accounts, total testosterone should be higher when SHBG is triple what it was when I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and yet total testosterone is largely unchanged.
This will be an interesting topic of conversation!
Even more interesting is my calculated free testosterone is lower than when my diabetes was out of control 7 years ago. Hopefully in the years to come we'll found out if SHBG exerts some effects on T receptor sites.
Last time I checked people with type 2 diabetes have low SHBG. For your information, my energy levels are outrageously high, higher than they ever were on the TRT and I hope that remains to be the case going forward.
183 lbs.
I killed it in the gym today. I feel like a teenager at this testosterone level and I feel better every day.
Two months from now my endo will check total testosterone, SHBG, estrogen, LH and FSH to get baseline levels for future reference. If I ever need TRT in the future, I would have to maintain 100-200 total testosterone.
When the testing is more widely available I plan on checking my AR gene CAG repeat numbers. I pretty much already know what the result will be [USER=13851]@madman[/USER]. 
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