Will this change things for the worse? Article recommends T level of 264-916

[Henry]

http://www.menshealth.com/health/is...&utm_term=790732743&utm_campaign=Men's Health

https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article-lookup/doi/10.1210/jc.2016-2935

This is stating the range of T should be between 264-916. Can doctors use this to lower the threshold they use to decide if a person should be on TRT or not? I was at 290 and 277 when I started TRT. According to this, I would have been normal?

 

[Vince Carter]

Plenty of Drs are mistreating men before that came out, which really isn't much different than anything previously published, I don't see it as anything new.

 

[CoastWatcher]

I agree with my friend, Vince Carter. One needn't look very far to find articles/studies that offer similar numbers. The key, as always, is finding a good doctor. They treat patients first, and numbers second.

 

[Vince]

At what age does a man have testosterone levels of 264.

 

[Henry]

At what age does a man have testosterone levels of 264.

I don't know. It says that the people tested were healthy, non-obese men aged 19-39

The 2.5th percentile was 264
The 5th percentile was 303
The 50th percentile was 531
The 95th percentile was 852
The 97.5th percentile was 916.

The numbers for 50 and above aren't too bad. It's the lower percentile that are troubling. That will make it more difficult to get on TRT. Also, there are some doctors that don't want to see people up too high. Even my insurance company says to continue TRT, people need to be under 800. Any higher, and they won't cover it.