Testosterone Levels - What do these mean?

[bobbie (imported)]

The levels should be reaching the normal lows for you very soon if not already. Your adrenal gland will still be making some testosterone.

[Woggler58 (imported)]

Mine was at 333 ng/dL last month, does anyone have a rough guess about how long it takes for the testosterone to metabolize out post-orchiectomy?

I've read that testosterone is mostly gone within a day after removal of the testes. One med journal report on a newer method for doing the surgery reported most T was gone in two hours. Nearly all bi-lateral castrations of men are for advanced prostate cancer, where the only purpose is to eliminate nearly all of the T and thereby impair the cancer's activity and spread. Bio-identical T replacement for low natural T production (or none) needs to be applied once or twice a day, to approximate how it had been delivered naturally. Google searches will get you lots of med journal article abstracts that deal with your question.

[birosypalm (imported)]

I never thought that there would be so many caring people out there who would:

1) Understand who I am and help me with the feelings I'm having

2) Provide so much valuable information and advice and

3) Offer encouragement and support to a total stranger

To each of you I say a big "THANK YOU." I appreciate ALL of your comments very much and look forward to any others that may follow. Thank you.

That said, with my low Testosterone levels, I definitely do feel weaker, more lethargic, tired, I have difficulty with sustainable and hard erections, and perhaps estrogen increases (can this be tested in a male?). I have also experienced some breast growth and very heightened nipple sensitivity. Do you think my low testesterone and perhaps a higher level of estrogen might be causing me

to have increased desires for castration & penectomy?