Pay no heed to nowayout.
YOUR TESTOSTERONE LEVEL IS ABYSMAL.
What's most important however is not tests - it's the two challenges I will describe below. If your symptoms resolve then you were deficient. Each man is hormonally unique so you have to take at least the first of these tests. Clomid is cheap, poorly-regulated (I was able to easily buy a single blister-pack for testing and had no trouble with Customs) and available in the manufacturer's original, sealed and date-coded blister-pack for testing. If you turn out to be primary, the second test will verify whether your symptoms are due to low Testosterone or not.
Before you even try the first test described below - Clomiphene Citrate - there is one very simple test you can do without anything else. This test differentiates the symptoms of low Tesosterone from all other diseases that can mimic it - especially Hypothyroid whose symptoms partially overlap.
After orgasm most but not all men experience a small, acute decrease in circulating Testosterone. Those with hypogonadism will experience a much larger drop and their symptoms will noticeably worsen for a period of hours to a day or even more. If your symptoms worsen then the test is accurate and you have low Testosterone.
For the last decade I have been paying an ever-worsening price after them - with all symptoms becoming much worse within hours to the next day and some persisting for two days afterward. There is no other disease that emulates this peculiar condition after orgasm.
The reason for this reaction that is so different between a man with normal Testosterone production capacity and one who has deficient production capacity is that the normal man's production will rapidly jump in to prevent a large Testosterone decline. He will see a brief dip but it will be small and perk right back up again - often unnoticeable.
The man who is hypogonadal will not have the ability to release more Testosterone and will have a longer, noticeable 'slump' that will take many times longer to rebuild due to his deficient
production rate.
If you have any symptoms and anything less than about 80% of the 'normal' found in healthy Boston men in 1996 then it's time to start the real 'testing' - the primary/secondary hypogonadism differentiation protocol. It's the Clomiphene [Clomid] test that I put myself through seceral years ago. Clomid tricks the HPTA axis in an attempt to increase Testosterone production naturally by fooling your system into thinking you have more Estrogenic activity than you normally do.
If your system can, it compensates by increasing Luteinizing Hormone output and if your balls have the capapcity, they respond to that by increasing Testosterone production.
If within a week your symptoms resolve then you're secondary hypogonadal and if they don't you're primary.
That will dictate the next test protocol. If you're primary then your next test is trying a short 'challenge' of taking a low dose of androgen timed to coincide with your natural Testosterone release pulse for about one week. I don't mean the highly suppressive Testosterone either.
If your symptoms only resolve with the second test - hormonal supplement - then you are both confirmed primary hypogonadal and you were deficient or at the least suboptimal in circulating Testosterone.
I can validate that the androgen I took resolved all symptoms in a matter of days with continuous positive progress every single day right up to today - more than a month-and-a-half later.
PS. I was also suicidal with three chemical suicide plans before starting the program. Such feelings and thoughts were wiped away within days and never returned, along with of course the vicious physical effects of having only half normal circulating Testosterone.
Most importantly: you get only one life and then you're dead forever. Every wasted day of doing nothing is one less day you can ever live. Don't be like me and sit around for two decades pondering the possibilities while your body rots. It ain't worth it. Now that I'm cured my life has changed completely for the better and I can now see how the symptoms worsened over those years.
The mental fog of the symptoms themselves prevented me from both seeing the worsening decline and also prevented my taking action. Low Testosterone is an insidious, progressive disease that sucks away life itself. It's a disease with a mind of its own that acts in a perverse way to preserve itself in a very toxic dynamic.
Edited by Isochroma-Reborn, 19 September 2013 - 03:36 PM.