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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymon" data-source="post: 207111" data-attributes="member: 42608"><p>You might be able to estimate your SHBG based on the free T and TT numbers since people use SHBG to estimate free T from TT all the time. In my blood work doing one or the other comes in pretty close.</p><p></p><p>I’ll give another point to the libido being far more complicated than your test numbers. I’m honestly not sure mine has ever had much correspondence to it. I also almost never get morning wood, on TRT or before, and for me it seems to have more to do with other hormones. If I take Cialis it’s harder to finish, which might be an issue with you.</p><p></p><p>There’s also the fact that your hormones all exist in a balance and have a lot of redundancy to them. You can have lower TT, then your SHBG and other things drop to make more of it free, and your T to E ratio changes with it, and still be fine. TT is like your testosterone gas tank, and you can still drive fine with less gas in the tank for many people when it comes to many bodily functions. You’re just freer to drive faster with more TT as long as your free T goes up with it. If your problem wasn’t test, sometimes more test actually makes it worse, or for some makes it better by causing the other hormones to catch up. Everyone’s different. In order though, usually you make sure your adrenals are okay, then thyroid, then test / estrogen, then growth hormone and other things. If you add more test on top of a thyroid and adrenal problem then it won’t do much for most and might make it worse. And in some fixes it. It’s all wonky.</p><p></p><p>I actually get brain fog more from thyroid and cortisol issues than testosterone ones. I personally never got brain fog with lower testosterone.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymon, post: 207111, member: 42608"] You might be able to estimate your SHBG based on the free T and TT numbers since people use SHBG to estimate free T from TT all the time. In my blood work doing one or the other comes in pretty close. I’ll give another point to the libido being far more complicated than your test numbers. I’m honestly not sure mine has ever had much correspondence to it. I also almost never get morning wood, on TRT or before, and for me it seems to have more to do with other hormones. If I take Cialis it’s harder to finish, which might be an issue with you. There’s also the fact that your hormones all exist in a balance and have a lot of redundancy to them. You can have lower TT, then your SHBG and other things drop to make more of it free, and your T to E ratio changes with it, and still be fine. TT is like your testosterone gas tank, and you can still drive fine with less gas in the tank for many people when it comes to many bodily functions. You’re just freer to drive faster with more TT as long as your free T goes up with it. If your problem wasn’t test, sometimes more test actually makes it worse, or for some makes it better by causing the other hormones to catch up. Everyone’s different. In order though, usually you make sure your adrenals are okay, then thyroid, then test / estrogen, then growth hormone and other things. If you add more test on top of a thyroid and adrenal problem then it won’t do much for most and might make it worse. And in some fixes it. It’s all wonky. I actually get brain fog more from thyroid and cortisol issues than testosterone ones. I personally never got brain fog with lower testosterone. [/QUOTE]
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