Hypo,
Thanks for reply.
I don't have the tests handy, but as I recall the "free test" was something like 291 which was below normal. The "bound test" was maybe slightly above the minimum.
The estrogen was normal, not even high normal, just normal, as I recall.
Progesterone was normal.
I also had a bunch of other tests, because the doctor didn't understand why I'd have low test.
I had some kind of test where they inject me with something to see if they can make my testes release test or something like that. Leutenizing hormone, Leutenizing releasing hormone, something like that. Anyway the gist of it was that everything worked. My testes can make test, and my brain can tell my testes to make test. It's just that the "thermostat" is set kind of low. Disappointing.
About the time I got gyno, I developed kind of a pea sized nodule on a teste (I know, gross). So I thought the two were related. I had it looked at at the time and the doctor said it was "nothing". Another doctor a few years back said it was "nothing". Don't know if it means anything or if it is just "nothing".
The endo I saw said I had two choices. Go on test. replacement or just live with it. He said since I looked healthy and relatively muscular, it would not be smart to go on test replacement. I don't think you can have kids or something either.
So that's that. That's when he made that kind of curious (he seemed kind of surprised at the whole ting) "testosterone is a funny thing...maybe you just don't need that much."
But now I wonder that if I have this surgery with low test, will it come back. The doctor implied that it doesn't. The cells are gone for the most part. I wonder if that's only if you are very aggressive with the gland.