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What caused you to need TRT?
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<blockquote data-quote="S1W" data-source="post: 109447" data-attributes="member: 16947"><p>I would just say life/genetics. I've played sports my whole life, taken a few dings here and there, but hard to say whether or not any of that really affected my current state. I was a late bloomer, always "looked young for my age", was always fit but struggled to put on muscle, etc. I had long suspected that my T levels might be low, well before I even knew about TRT, but any doc I brought it up with would say something like "well you have facial hair so you can't be low T" or "you seem too athletic to be low T" or "you're too young to be worried about low T", etc.</p><p></p><p>In my late 30s, I noticed a general decline in interest in most things that I used to enjoy. Had occasional ED (that progressed to frequent ED), general moodiness that was not characteristic of me, brain fog, and just a general listlessness. I was far from some of the more extreme cases I've read about here where people don't want to get out of bed, etc - but I felt like something was off.</p><p></p><p>My doc agreed to run a test for T and it came back near the bottom of the range of normal. He said "see, you're fine." I said that based on my symptoms and what I had read about T levels and "normal ranges", that I would like to dig into it deeper. He was OK with that, and referred me to an endo, who ran a few more labs and started me on TRT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="S1W, post: 109447, member: 16947"] I would just say life/genetics. I've played sports my whole life, taken a few dings here and there, but hard to say whether or not any of that really affected my current state. I was a late bloomer, always "looked young for my age", was always fit but struggled to put on muscle, etc. I had long suspected that my T levels might be low, well before I even knew about TRT, but any doc I brought it up with would say something like "well you have facial hair so you can't be low T" or "you seem too athletic to be low T" or "you're too young to be worried about low T", etc. In my late 30s, I noticed a general decline in interest in most things that I used to enjoy. Had occasional ED (that progressed to frequent ED), general moodiness that was not characteristic of me, brain fog, and just a general listlessness. I was far from some of the more extreme cases I've read about here where people don't want to get out of bed, etc - but I felt like something was off. My doc agreed to run a test for T and it came back near the bottom of the range of normal. He said "see, you're fine." I said that based on my symptoms and what I had read about T levels and "normal ranges", that I would like to dig into it deeper. He was OK with that, and referred me to an endo, who ran a few more labs and started me on TRT. [/QUOTE]
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