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Testosterone Basics & Questions
starting HCG monotherapy
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<blockquote data-quote="paco" data-source="post: 9865" data-attributes="member: 37"><p>Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm sure you will find some good insight here. Were the recent labs taken previous to beginning HCG? If so, you don't appear to be obviously secondary hypogonadal, meaning that you may already be producing sufficient gonadotropins (LH and FSH). If this is the case, HCG is replacing something that doesn't need replacing. (That said, it is very hard to interpret LH, in particular, given that it is secreted as pulses so you may be catching it anywhere in that "wave" at the time of any particular blood draw.)</p><p></p><p>If instead, you are primary hypogonadal, your doctor would find through subsequent labs (assuming he is knowledgable about appropriate diagnosis and treatment), that your testes are not responding to the LH signal from your pituitary. So, you see there are two forms of hypogonadism, but there are many causes for each form. It's fundamentally important at this point to know which form you are dealing with and to try to determine the cause, so that you can be appropriately treated. </p><p></p><p>As an aside, Dr. John Crisler's recently published "Low T Book" goes into great detail on this. </p><p></p><p>Just my two cents off the cuff - It will be interesting to hear what others say about this...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paco, post: 9865, member: 37"] Thanks for sharing your experience with us. I'm sure you will find some good insight here. Were the recent labs taken previous to beginning HCG? If so, you don't appear to be obviously secondary hypogonadal, meaning that you may already be producing sufficient gonadotropins (LH and FSH). If this is the case, HCG is replacing something that doesn't need replacing. (That said, it is very hard to interpret LH, in particular, given that it is secreted as pulses so you may be catching it anywhere in that "wave" at the time of any particular blood draw.) If instead, you are primary hypogonadal, your doctor would find through subsequent labs (assuming he is knowledgable about appropriate diagnosis and treatment), that your testes are not responding to the LH signal from your pituitary. So, you see there are two forms of hypogonadism, but there are many causes for each form. It's fundamentally important at this point to know which form you are dealing with and to try to determine the cause, so that you can be appropriately treated. As an aside, Dr. John Crisler's recently published "Low T Book" goes into great detail on this. Just my two cents off the cuff - It will be interesting to hear what others say about this... [/QUOTE]
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