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Posted 6/8/2015 5:51 PM (GMT 0)
Hi,
I had some fatigue recently, and my PCP tested my T level along with a bunch of other things. Everything came back as normal, but T level was 253. This this is the first time I was tested for T. So I do not know if low T caused my PCa. I have not seen the doctor yet. I definitley do not want the T therapy now.

On the good side, PSA seems to be stable around 4.3 , and has not changed in 8 months.


Thanks.
Posted 6/8/2015 10:11 PM (GMT 0)
My RO at Emory says PCP's shouldn't be dolling out T replacements, and that for a 49 year old man (me), 300 - 400 might be normal (mine came back at 148 so he's sending me to a urologists specializing in it).

He said T replacement could be very dangerous to long term health. I don't know how much he knows about it, but he seems pretty sharp. He said much above 300 for me, with PCa, would be about as high as he'd recommend.

I felt much better with it at 800 a year ago but I still think it advanced my PSA from 2.3 to 4.6.

My advice would be to seek out a specialist, as I am doing.
Posted 6/9/2015 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you Dewayne. I definitely want to stay away from T replacement for now, instead will try some low risk natural remedies such as: 9 ways to naturally increase

fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2012/07/27/increase-testosterone-levels.aspx
Posted 6/9/2015 10:58 AM (GMT 0)
Andy, you might ask your doctor about Clomid. It's not a T replacement. It's a small pill that works on the pituitary and hypothalamus glands to stop the production of estrogen. Estrogen signals the testes not to produce T, so this ends with your body making more T on its own. Clomid does not have the down sides of the replacements and it has negligible side effects on its own, for most people.

This was recommended to me by Dr. John Mulhall of MSKCC, who knows a couple of things about the subject. He's currently studying the effects of increase T production on PCa treated folks like me with intermediate or high risk of BCR. So far, there's no correlation with more T and recurrence.

I'm not a medical doctor -- just wanted to pass on a possibility that you and your doctor might consider.

Walt
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