High, I have been suffering from low libido and no erection since end of 2015. A bit of information. I had bilateral Varicoscele in the past (When I was 15 and now I am 30) and made the surgery and had a veery slow recovery. In the last spermogram I made, I am considered fertile, but still on the very low range. Anyway I never payed attention to my Test results over the year as I had good libido (still I don’t remember having much morning woods). After my problem started I made a blood analysis and had 530 of Test (no estradiol and cant remember LH and FSH). I thought that was very low and than I looked my past Test tests and all they were very low (like 350 range). During that time when the problem started I was in good shape and going to gym. I started doing everything I could find from Peak forum. I tried to increase my NO taing garlic with vitamin C, L-Arginine, L-Citruline, and so on during 2016. At the time I had a strong wood druing night after taking a bag of argula and lot of beet juice, but after that night, nothing. I started using very low doses of cialis to give some help in the bed. There weeks some weeks I had some improvement and had morning woods and so on, but others were terrible. To complement the Year of 2016 was a Hell on Earth to me as I as finishing my PhD so I took A LOT of Energy drinks, bad sleep, heart palpitation and so on… in the end of the year I made a blood test and Total Test was around 450 and Free Test around 12,5 (still, no E2). When 2017 started, with the PhD over, I started having a better live, still my sleep was a garbage since the end of 2016. In the end of 2016 my heart was accelerated when I was going to bed (due to the cumulative stress). The accelerated heart gone away, but the crap sleep stayed for much longer. In the beginning of 2017 I tryed to stop with cialis and started using yohimbine + Mucuna Puriens and Kegels. That helped me to have good erections when having sex without stimulation, but still was much worst than before of 2015. Now at May, I had a very stressful month and stopped kegels ad the problem came back as before. Now, past week I got back to the gym and started doing kegels again. I did a Bloot test yesterday and the results were the following (there is much more, but just showing the relevant part):
Total T: 354 ng/dL (241 to 827)
Free T: 8.96 ng/dL (3.4 to 24.6)
SHBG: 21.1 nmol/L (10.0 to 57.0)
Bio T: 210.03 ng/dL (82 to 626)
Prolactine: 9.07ng/mL (2.10 to 17.70)
Estradiol: 42.6 pg/mL ( <39.8)
FSH: 1.8 uUI/mL (1.4 to 18.1)
LH: 3.4 mUI/mL (1.5 to 9.3)
TSH 2.066 uUI/ml (0.4 to 4.3)
Free T4 1.35 ng/dL (0.7 to 1.8)
25 OH Vitamin D: 39,4 ng/mL (30 to 100)
Iron 145 ug/dL (59 to 159)
Ferritin 233 ng/mL (22 to 322)
Creatinine: 0.99 mg/dl (0.5 to 1.3)
Total Cholesterol: 208 mg/dl (<190)
HDL - Cholesterol 52 mg/dL (>40)
Non HDL - Cholesterol 156 mg/dL (<160)
LDL - Cholesterol : 139 mg/dL (<130)
VLDL - Cholesterol : 17 mg/dL (none)
Triglycerides 83 mg/dL (<150)
Insulin: 4.9 mU/L (3.0 to 25.0)
Potassium: 4.2 mEq/L (3.5 to 5.5)
Sodium: 140 mEq/L (138 to 145)
Magnesium: 1.9 mg/dL (1.6 to 2.6)
Glucose: 93 mg/dL (70 to 99)
Thyroid peroxidase antibody <28 UI/mL (<60 UI/mL)
PSA 1.4 ng/mL ( < 4.00)
PTH 3.41 pg/mL (14.0 to 72.0)
Bilirubin Total 0.77 mg/dL (0.3 to 1.2)
Bilirubin Direct 0.22 mg/dL (<0.2)
Bilirubin Indirect 0.55 mg/dL (0.1 to 1)
Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase 22 U/L (15 to 63)
Transaminase Oxalacetic 36 U/L (15 to 40)
Pyruvic Transaminase 26 U/L (10 to 40)
Folic Acid 21.2 ng/mL (>5.38)
Vitamin B-12 541 pg/ML (211 to 911)
Antithyroglobulin Antibody <30 UI/mL (<60 UI/mL)
HbA1c 5.6% (<5.7%)
Estimated Mean Glucose 114 mg/dL (none)
My T is even lower than before, and the E2 (that was never measured) is pretty high. LH and FSH seems to be low to me.
All the Doctors I went past year and told about my problem told me that it was due to stress… but my libido was not back and neither the erection this year after my stress went away and the problem started before the high stress.
In my opinion I may have a standard low T due to Varicoscele (even after fixed) and the E2 started to raise and my libido went away and now is crashing my system as the LH and FSH are reducing and my Test is going even lower.
Any help and directions. I have Endo and Uro in the following month, but I am not sure they will do anything as in the past. Now the high E2 might help the Endo take some action, but not sure.
Regarding my lifelong low T due to varicoscele, do you believe is possible to increase that with clomid/hCG restart protocol? I am 30 but a read in a lot of Forums that lot of people had good results after the surgery. But as mine was 15 years ago I am not sure it can help.
Thank you!
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