What exact tests need to be done?

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Hi,

I got an endocrinologist appointment (someone who does reproductive

endocrinology too, not just diabetes) in my small town for early Feb -

nothing is available before that. I was thinking if I could educate

myself from the internet and go to a general doctor (internal

medicine) and get the tests started. What exact tests need to be done?

Maybe repeat total/free testosterone, estrogen, FSH, LH, thyroid,

semen analysis? Can a general doctor prescribe these tests? Then we

would have a head start before going to the endocrinologist. I highly

doubt my husband would be willing to drive to another state in the

snow, when it took him one year and my threat to leave to go to a

urologist. Are there any in IN/MO? TN/MI seem farther.

Also, the T level of 200 was an evening level (4 PM maybe), and

usually morning levels are measured. How much more is the morning

level likely to be? I guess it does not vary too much over the day?

I sometimes think the problems in my marriage (sexual, physical,

emotional) are unsurmountable and I should just leave. But leaving a

marriage is harder than leaving a relationship, and I have more

motivation to try to make this work since this is a marriage. I hope I

know at what point I should give up. I feel I devote all my time and

energy in trying to fix my husband's problems and have no time left

for myself. I have certainly been miserable for the first year of my

marriage, which is supposed to be the blissful year.

Sally