Low test levels? Wtf

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38slug

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Ok,
im 18 and im about 155 pounds. i take Vivanse (Stimulant) for school so i have been having trouble getting my weight up because of the lack of apatite, stomach discomfort, ect. Latley i haven't really been doing shit but go to the gym, smoke weed, go to school. I feel like i have just lost the drive to go out and drink/ smoke w/ friends. I dont feel totally depressed but i just sometimes feel like i dont even have the will to hit people up and actually get out of my house and get laid. I could get laid if i wanted to ok there are plenty of bitches interested its just like i have no drive to go have sex. and i sure as hell aint queer
I am 18 and i still dont have much facial hair at all and my dad has a ton.
When i was around the age of 14-15, 16 i fucked around w. Oxy and opioids a lot. I got into treatment around when i was turning 17 but i know this sounds fucked up but i was dropping morphine sulfate 60s and railing OC when i was fucking 15.
i havent been addicted to that shit any more but when i was using i had severe Detoxes multiple times. most people dont have experiences like this when there this young but what the fuck, its my past and i gotta live with it. as i said i have barley any facial hair, im 18. I herd opioid addiction can lower your test levels. Im gonna tell this shit to my Doc and get some shit started w/ getting my Testosterone levels checked. If they do determine they are low what are the possible treatments for this? Will i have trouble getting a script for some test since I have a history of addiction or does it not matter? How common is it for a doctor to in america to prescribe test?
I know i could probably deal w/ this myself by lookin to cop shit from some people who i no juce at my gym, I just think to would be pretty sketchy trying to give myself test injections w/ out a doctors insight on what i should actually do.

If theres anyone with insight on this topic please share.
 
Bro,
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Simple fix possibly.

Sleep 8 hours day
Eat lots of eggs and coconut milk

Try mixing 10 eggs mixed with can of full fat coconut milk with 1 or 2 scoops whey protein

follow every day for 1 month

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No harm in getting your test levels checked. Opiates do lower test levels, as does getting drunk regularly, I'm not sure on this but I thought the effect was only temporary in dropping your test levels, not long lasting. Also, the loss or lack of interest in sex could be related to something else like depression, if your having trouble getting out of the house it could be due to something like depression instead of low test levels. Bloodwork will either confirm or rule out low test levels.
Going on testosterone replacement therapy is a lifelong committment, it's not like you inject test for a few months and that makes your natural test levels normal. What happens is your own body stops producing test and the test you inject is the test that effects you.
If you do have low test I would ask the dr about alternatives to trying to get your test levels up, going on test replacement therapy at age 55 or 60 is one thing, at 18 your looking at giving yourself test injections once or twice a week for the rest of your life! There might be some other alternatives that can help your body increase it's own test production, kind of jump starting your own production, I'm not sure but I would be much more interested in this type of option if it exists at your age. I'm 44 and don't want to go on TRT (test replacement therapy) at MY age, I will probably want to in 10-20 years though.
 
I have this problem and I'm 22. I've since stopped going to college and all I do is go to work, eat, get stoned and workout. I rarely have a desire to do anything else. Whenever I do I'm usually hopelessly bored and go back to my routine.

Weed helps AND hinders - I think. Makes you comfortable with how things are. The gym gives you purpose and drive. Steroids make going to the gym better. Yeep.

What you - and probably I - should do is surround yourself with people who love fitness. Average people go out and get drunk all the time.
 
Ya thanks, i knew it would be a matter of time until some better responses were posted. I think there are deeper problems for me here besides a dearth in test, probably the starting of more of a depression i think. I wish i had more friends that could relate to me on a fitness level. ya that will probibly come when i head to college. thats true with the weed but lately i quit sort of because it was causing mental unrest.

I Feel what you said though "weed Makes you comfortable with how things are. The gym gives you purpose and drive" as for gear ill probly end up cycling when im around 25, im not really at the age for that yet i think.

I can truthfully say if it wasent for exersize i would have ended my life long ago so maby it makes sense to go for a degree in nutritional fitness, health and exercise. who knows

Good responses, thanks
 
BTW exercise is great for depression. Pills can help a great deal as well, assuming you do not have objections to taking pills for mental/emotional problems. I take anti-depressants, although I struggled with the notion of taking them, and avoided taking them when I was your age. Now the way I look at it is like this:
We are only here for a minute, 60 more years and your dead and buried (give or take a decade or 2). So if there are things that are going to improve the quality of my life, like exercise, friendships with positive people who have similar interests as mine, a wife I love, medication, then I want to include those things in my life so my very limited time here on earth will be improved. I know what it's like to lay in bed all day, to avoid others due to symptoms of anxiety and depression, to have a negative self-image, to have had episodes where I would cry for very brief periods for like 100 times in a day, etc....
I can take a pill or 3 and most all of that goes away. Sure, the gym and friendships help, but they do not help even close to as quickly as anti-depressants do. It's like a cast helps with a broken leg, but adding in pain meds and crutches and your life is way better than with only the cast. I want all the help I can get, suffering in life sucks ass. I did my lifetimes share of suffering in my childhood, I want relief, freedom, and contentment at this point in my life, and for the rest of my life as well.
I'm not trying to pressure anyone into taking anti-depressants, just sharing my own personal view of them for myself. I believe that people should make their own decisions for themselves on such matters, but I do believe that people make better decisions when they are 'informed' decisions, when they understand the pro's and con's of a variety of options available to help them in life. I feel sorry for people who don't take medications for mental/emotional/mood disorders because society places stigma on such problems. Let me tell you, if you were raised like I was, you'd have wound up pretty messed up too. I did a lot of hard work to sort myself out and I'm glad that there are medications, and that I am now willing to take them, to help improve the quality of my life.
Good luck bro, talk to your dr about getting your test levels checked, but you also might want to consider asking him about taking a simple questionnaire, a depression screening test. It is like 16 questions and takes 5 minutes to do. Your problems could be associated with something other than low test or depression, but I don't see the downside to doing these tests. Good luck bro!
 
Some men don't have as much facial hair as others, even compared to their own fathers. Some men aren't going to have a lot of facial hair at age 18.

I wouldn't worry, seeing as you are only 18 years old. I am sure this is something you'll still want to look into, so have your levels tested. Best of luck.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
Some men don't have as much facial hair as others, even compared to their own fathers. Some men aren't going to have a lot of facial hair at age 18.

I wouldn't worry, seeing as you are only 18 years old. I am sure this is something you'll still want to look into, so have your levels tested. Best of luck.
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This is sooo true, and a great point! When I graduated HS at age 18 I was 5'8', a couple of years later I was 6'2". I was a 'late bloomer'. It caused me a lot of distress back then as I looked very young, 14 yo girls would look at me and giggle while girls my own age ignored me. I had very little facial hair, chest hair, and back hair at age 18. Now I easily grow a very full beard, have lots of hair on my chest and stomach, and my back is also covered in hair.

And now in my 40's I look like I"m in my 30's so my baby looks when I was younger is a great benefit now!!!!
 
I don't think this guy is complaining about body hair...

Hell - if I were covered in loads of thick body hair I'd be down like a clown - like way down. :)
 
A lack of appetite is no reason to be skinny. It may be hard, but you have to force yourself to stuff your fucking face man. Dont eat to the point where you think you ate alot, eat until you cant physically eat any more. We all have different levels of what we think is 'alot of food', yours is obviouslly very low. Start hittin the weights and eat alot, protien or not.
 
ya i take whey protein n shit i just jacked up my shoulder in the gym, i put on too much upper body muscle this winter to run track cuz my shins cant handle the weaigh and i got shin splints real bad so i guess ill just stay with the weights but probbly take time off
 
38slug said:
ya i take whey protein n shit i just jacked up my shoulder in the gym, i put on too much upper body muscle this winter to run track cuz my shins cant handle the weaigh and i got shin splints real bad so i guess ill just stay with the weights but probbly take time off
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So do squats, leg presses, deadlifts. Don't neglect your lower body.
 
Top foods for gaining test almonds, avocados, oysters, bananas, celery. Sleep right eat right and don’t ova train do heavy weights on big muscle groups .smoking dope and drinking will just destroy your test. If u want to have a night out just use GHB will boost your GH levels and get u loos without destroying your gains just research it first.
 
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