Test results help needed PLEASE

[horny_lynne (imported)]

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

I am 52 if that helps.

How old are you?

You're in the bottom 5% in any age range; that number's around 350. You're really very low.

http://www.mayomedicallaboratories.com/ ... etive/8533

Females of reproductive ages can have up to 60, so…

[ambiguous (imported)]

Lets go back to "Loosethems" answer here.

There are two (sorry three) scales of measuring testosterone levels that I know of to keep it simple nmol/l or ng/ml and ng/dl the latter I believe to be used more commonly and the nmol/l scale used by some labs in Europe. I have had blood work done by two labs in the UK and its been in the nmol/l scale.

ranges for the nmol/l scale usually in the 1 to 40 range.

Here is a link that may help https://www.nebido.com/tools/index.php/ ... rsion-tool

[ambiguous (imported)]

try the link again..oooppps

https://www.nebido.com/tools/index.php/ ... rsion-tool

[Losethem (imported)]

Lets go back to "Loosethems" answer here.

There are two (sorry three) scales of measuring testosterone levels that I know of to keep it simple nmol/l or ng/ml and ng/dl the latter I believe to be used more commonly and the nmol/l scale used by some labs in Europe. I have had blood work done by two labs in the UK and its been in the nmol/l scale.

ranges for the nmol/l scale usually in the 1 to 40 range.

Here is a link that may help https://www.nebido.com/tools/index.php/ ... rsion-tool

Yes, back to my answer. Unless you provide the scale we are working with, there is no way to answer your questions. You level could be fine at a particular number on one scale, and not fine on another. So just throwing a number with no further details is pointless. We need to know what scale it is being measured on. So please tell us that, or quit asking.

--LT

[nutless1 (imported)]

As if this is not confusing enough for the average Joe, it depends on what the test is measuring.

Here in the U.S. my doctor always orders and tests for total testosterone and free testosterone. The labs I've gone to measure the total testosterone using ng/dl, and the free testosterone using the pg/ml. It must also be noted, as I was told, that different labs may use different numerical ranges for any given test result, so there exists a variety of ranges for the same test, so a different range can exist with the same result--low or very low testosterone.

In my case, my doctor concluded that there exists a consistant correlation between the total testosterone and free testosterone indicators, in my pre and post injection and post surgery removal of my one testicle. Both total and free went from nid-range normal pre-injection, to below minimum of normal range post-injection pre-surgery, and vastly below minimum after surgery.

What I found most interesting is that despite below minimum range, my doctor indicated that both the lab and ultrasound tests did not warrant removal of both testicles at the time of the first testicle removal surgery. That conclusion told me one or both of two things; there truly is reluctance by doctors to remove any body tissue or organ if there is any indicator the tissue or organ can ve rehabilitated, or that insurance coverage creates a motivation for more than one surgery. Regardless, the first conclusion affirms that which is so often repeated on here that doctors are trained and instilled with the motto do no harm or greater harm.

Lets go back to "Loosethems" answer here.

There are two (sorry three) scales of measuring testosterone levels that I know of to keep it simple nmol/l or ng/ml and ng/dl the latter I believe to be used more commonly and the nmol/l scale used by some labs in Europe. I have had blood work done by two labs in the UK and its been in the nmol/l scale.

ranges for the nmol/l scale usually in the 1 to 40 range.

Here is a link that may help https://www.nebido.com/tools/index.php/ ... rsion-tool

[Frida G Cavic (imported)]

my results just today: 14.10 ng/dL

normal reference range:

47.01 - 980.56 ng/dL

according to this study: http://www.goldjournal.net/article/S009 ... 7/abstract the reange for castrated men are: <20ng/dL

[Losethem (imported)]

my results just today: 14.10 ng/dL

normal reference range:

47.01 - 980.56 ng/dL

according to this study: http://www.goldjournal.net/article/S009 ... 7/abstract the reange for castrated men are: <20ng/dL

The low end of that normal reference is abnormally low for what is considered low in the US. Our scale starts at about 400 and goes up to 1200 or so. Do you mean 470.1 and not 47.01?

You are definitely at castrate levels, regardless.

--LT

[Frida G Cavic (imported)]

I re-read the results and the range is 47.01-980.56 ng/dL. For me the low limit from the laboratory where my test were made, It´s too low as well. the technique used was chimioluminiscence with nanoparticles.

[Paolo]

try the link again..oooppps

https://www.nebido.com/tools/index.php/ ... rsion-tool

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Don't bother with the URL code feature. Just copy the link directly from your address bar, come to the reply box, paste it, hit ENTER then type your message.

That's the easiest way.

[Losethem (imported)]

I re-read the results and the range is 47.01-980.56 ng/dL. For me the low limit from the laboratory where my test were made, It´s too low as well. the technique used was chimioluminiscence with nanoparticles.

That is a truly bizarre scale being used in your country. The 980 seems on the low side of correct for the upper limit, but that 47.01 is EXTREMELY low for the ng/dL scale. Most information I can find says the normal testosterone level in a healthy male is between about 300 and 1100 ng/dL.

--LT