Feeling rough

After feeling so ill yesterday, where I spent the first half of the day yakking into the toilet (possibly a fatal mixture of KFC and Pepsi shaken for two hours until volatile), followed by a night of sweats, I realised that it would be a bad idea to go into the hospital for the consultation.

I phoned and left a message asking for a phone consultation instead. Just before lunch the secretary phoned and confirmed that I would receive a phone call instead.

The consultation

This wasn’t with the same person I saw last time.

There was some discussion of when to take the blood after applying the Testavan gel. Given that my levels were “normal” on what I thought was a low dose made us wonder whether it’s allowed enough time after applying the gel. The endocrinologist want world though.

She’s going to ask for another full blood test to be taken approximately six months after I started taking the gel. That will put it into February.

Going over the results

She confirmed that they are aiming for “mid range” of anywhere from 10 to 27 nmol/L. To her, 19.5 is acceptable.

She also said that my haemoglobin levels are good (apparently testosterone can make the blood sticky). My liver is ok.

They also tested for PSA could make a lesion bigger in prostate. PSA is “prostate-specific antigen”, which is something that even healthy prostates produce, however there are several other conditions which could cause it to rise, let amongst them are cancer or lesions. The endocrinologist said that high testosterone itself won’t cause cancer, but it could make lesions bigger.

All is good

She felt that it’s ok for me to stay on one pump per day for now, however she is going to run out past the main endocrinologist (the one I saw last time),

If I don’t hear anything, then all is good. If the main endocrinologist is concerned, then I’ll get a phone call or an email.

We stayed up the call by restating that I should arrange the blood test so that’s is ideally four to six hours after Testavan. I also need to make sure that the blood test is taken from the opposite arm that applied the gel to.

All is good!