I Am Not A Man

[chequita guevara]

So I've had a number of blood tests recently. One of them was to check my testosterone level. Low testosterone mimicks a lot of the symptoms of depression: loss of libido, lethargy, deference to authority, shyness, procrastination, weight gain, etc.

So I got my test back the other week. The average adult male human has a score from 250 to 1100. I don't know that the median and average results are. That's what's considered a normal level, though it seems a rather wide range to me. I got a 176. I'm a girlie-man.

The good news, though, is this is rather treatable. I could take Androgel, but I'm not really down with the side effects: permanent sterilization, etc. The alternative is to take DHEA, which causes your body to manufacture more testosterone. This keeps the testicles working. I don't know what that's important to me, even though I don't plan on fathering any children.

This does explain a lot.

[Krill]

Just because you don't plan to now, doesn't mean that you don't plan to in the future.

So don't take the Androgel. Take the DHEA, unless the side effects with that are unbearable...

[Sava]

shirt for you che



go for DHEA

heard good things

[Ecthy]

I should do similar. Depression symptomes and also several symptomes of low testosterone. Yet when my blood was tested for possible heart malfunctioning nothing about such was said, but then maybe it wasn't tested. If my moods don't get better with term start I shall see a doc anyway.

[Kontiki]

re: I am not a man

You needed a test to tell you that?

[Ecthy]

His packages are there, just in rather rudimentary a manner.

[Asher]

I am a man as a man I've been told
Bacon is brought to the house in this mold
Born of your bellies I yearn for the cord
Years I have groveled repentance ignored

And I have been blamed
And I have repented
I'm working my way toward our union mended

I am man who has grown from a son
Been crucified by enraged women
I am son who was raised by such men
I'm often reminded of the fools I'm among

And I have been shamed
And I have relented
I'm working my way toward our union mended
And I have been shamed
And I have repented
I'm working my way toward our union mended

we don't fare well with endless reprimands
we don't do well with a life served as a sentence
this won't work well if you're hell bent on your offence
I am a man who understands your reticence

I am a man who still does what he can
to dispel our archaic reputation
I am a man who has heard all he can
cuz I don't fare well with endless punishment

Cuz I have been blamed and I have repented
I'm working my way toward our union mended
And we have been blamed and we have repented
I'm working my way toward our union mended

[duke o' york]

Originally posted by Ecthy
I should do similar. Depression symptomes and also several symptomes of low testosterone. Yet when my blood was tested for possible heart malfunctioning nothing about such was said, but then maybe it wasn't tested. If my moods don't get better with term start I shall see a doc anyway.

Depression? But why? Always compare yourself with Dis.
You won't be depressed any longer.

[Ecthy]

Yeah I know. But still.

[duke o' york]

Fair enough, being forced to cheat to win Mornington Crescent has made me depressed, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were too, given that you were the one cheating.

[Theben]

WTF is Mornington Crescent again?!

[Timexwatch]

All commies are sissies. Now you have a biological explanation as to why you are a sissy.

PS I bet Lenin has a small apple bag

[self biased]

more blowjobs should be in order. keep those boys excited.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Fair enough, being forced to cheat to win Mornington Crescent has made me depressed, and I wouldn't be surprised if you were too, given that you were the one cheating.

[Alexander's Horse]

Re: I Am Not A Man

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
don't know what that's important to me, even though I don't plan on fathering any children.

that may be just a symptom