Re: Research Scientist/Medical Schl Faculty

[Guest guest]

Tom,

I was a research scientist too and on faculty of three medical schools; 100

publications in top, peer-reviewed journals. I agree, men could avail

themselves of using search engines and also our files/links sections here.

Just my training and practice....I like chapter/verse whenever possible.

Data...if you have hormone values over time...these might be interesting to

see. I have blood work done every two months...my PCP keeps his HIV+/AIDS

clients on a short leash...so I accumulate a lot of data....I try to table

it and keep it in personal folders that I can readily copy into a post.

My PCP lets me manage my sex hormone levels....my primary hypogonadism comes

from HIV infection. My PCP is convinced that I've learned first from

newsgroup Alt. Support Impotence, when it was more sex hormone focused.

When I was injecting 100 mg Depo/wk, there was a lot of conversion to the

Es. I had tried OTC to manage them without success...I asked to go on

Arimidex...he had no issue with that compared with posts I read here of men

having difficulty obtaining an anti-aromatase.

As my hypogonadism is rather straight forward, I do not follow AACE

guidelines, periodically I do peruse http://www.labcorp.com/ they give a

good description of their tests and ref range for each test. My PCP uses

Lab Corp. I've put this link in our links section.

We get an appreciable number of questions about AndroGel I put this link to

Unimed's AndroGel pamphlet couple years ago in our Links section

http://www.unimed.com/proddisc2.html the pamphlet is very informative.

Solvay http://solvay.com/ is now distributor of AndroGel.

Finally, if you come upon a link that you think especially good and that

might be helpful to others, consider putting the link in our links section.

OR eon

GayMan

Re: Back from the DR

> Skibum,

>

> Good points (although presented in a bit of a pointed style)

[AACE guidelines snipped for brevity]

I was speaking only of the stimulation testing, not regimes for

ongoing therapy.

My style may be a bit pointed, but my hope is that more men take the

initiative to do just a bit of reading (eg, the AACE guidelines often

mentioned here) when speaking of medical protocols. These hopes have

arisen not solely from the post regarding hCG testing, but more from

posts that ask really basic fundamental questions that one can have

answered through a simple google search.

As a research scientist, it just my nature to reseach " stuff. "

Cheers,

Tom

[Guest guest]

> > Skibum,

> >

> > Good points (although presented in a bit of a pointed style)

>

> [AACE guidelines snipped for brevity]

>

> I was speaking only of the stimulation testing, not regimes for

> ongoing therapy.

>

> My style may be a bit pointed, but my hope is that more men take the

> initiative to do just a bit of reading (eg, the AACE guidelines often

> mentioned here) when speaking of medical protocols. These hopes have

> arisen not solely from the post regarding hCG testing, but more from

> posts that ask really basic fundamental questions that one can have

> answered through a simple google search.

>

> As a research scientist, it just my nature to reseach " stuff. "

>

> Cheers,

> Tom

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

>

>>Although some may argue that high T levels (near top of the range)

>don't always have such a positive effect on erectile function, I,

>after reading Shippen's book, am not one of them.

>

>Cheers,

>Tom

What did Shippen say about this. I cant remember.

Thanks,

Winter

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[Guest guest]

>

>

> >

> >>Although some may argue that high T levels (near top of the range)

> >don't always have such a positive effect on erectile function, I,

> >after reading Shippen's book, am not one of them.

> >

> >Cheers,

> >Tom

>

> What did Shippen say about this. I cant remember.

>

> Thanks,

> Winter

Can't recall details, and my book is at home. But do remember

something about cells in scrotum/penis essentially dying without T,

and that they come alive when T is normalized.

I'll give that chapter a reread tonight and summarize tomorrow.

Tom

[Guest guest]

> >

> >

> > >

> > >>Although some may argue that high T levels (near top of the range)

> > >don't always have such a positive effect on erectile function, I,

> > >after reading Shippen's book, am not one of them.

> > >

> > >Cheers,

> > >Tom

> >

> > What did Shippen say about this. I cant remember.

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Winter

>

> Can't recall details, and my book is at home. But do remember

> something about cells in scrotum/penis essentially dying without T,

> and that they come alive when T is normalized.

>

> I'll give that chapter a reread tonight and summarize tomorrow.

>

> Tom

Shippen wrote (backed up by references of course) that there are many

testosterone receptors is the crotch area, and that the muscles,

ligaments, etc tend to atrophy when T is low. Again, the good news is

that function can be brought back on line when T is increased to more

normal levels.