Back in September my NP ran a check up blood test on me. Cholesterol, A1C, and stuff like that. Turns out my testosterone is about 100 times higher than normal. We wait a month, test it again, still about 100 times higher than normal. She recommends an appointment with an endocrinologist, who I finally got to see last Monday. He is wondering why I came. I told him high testosterone. He says it's normal. I say, "6 is the high end of the scale, and mine is 650, that doesn't sound normal to me." He looks at the chart again and says, "This scale is for a women. Your level is right in the middle of the scale for men." "Good grief" thinks I.
I reckon I'm gonna have to have a talk with my NP, maybe she's never noticed I'm not female. Maybe have her do a hernia check or something like that. Perhaps she'd notice then that there are things down there that sorta rule out being female.
Back in September when we got the first results, my wife called our daughter who is an RN, and asked what could cause the high testosterone. Daughter says, "Could be a tumor." I already knew that could be a cause, but never mentioned it to my wife as she already worries about too much stuff anyway.
I never really believed my level was high anyway, since I haven't been starting bar fights and stabbing people and other violent things normally associated with high testosterone. I mentioned that to the endocrinoligist and he agreed that high testosterone does sorta increase aggressiviness. I'm about as aggressive as a mouse on valium.
So anyway, I'm glad to report that I, at least in one way, am normal.
I reckon I'm gonna have to have a talk with my NP, maybe she's never noticed I'm not female. Maybe have her do a hernia check or something like that. Perhaps she'd notice then that there are things down there that sorta rule out being female.
Back in September when we got the first results, my wife called our daughter who is an RN, and asked what could cause the high testosterone. Daughter says, "Could be a tumor." I already knew that could be a cause, but never mentioned it to my wife as she already worries about too much stuff anyway.
I never really believed my level was high anyway, since I haven't been starting bar fights and stabbing people and other violent things normally associated with high testosterone. I mentioned that to the endocrinoligist and he agreed that high testosterone does sorta increase aggressiviness. I'm about as aggressive as a mouse on valium.
So anyway, I'm glad to report that I, at least in one way, am normal.