[Misty0732]

Without knowing your sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG), it is hard to explain your low free T unless it is laboratory error, which it could be.

Low T can result in a myriad of health problems in males, including diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, depression, muscle wasting and weakness, and I forget the rest of the list. You might check out http://www.lef.org (The Life Extension Foundation) for information on low T and other things. I will admit, I've read articles in their monthly magazine, but can never find them on the website when I want to print them and show them to my doctor so it might be hard to find anything. By rights, with a free T reading as low as yours, you should have ED and no libido (other symptoms of low T), but you say everything works so maybe the lab screwed up and slipped a decimal place. Nine makes more sense than 0.9, but I'm not a doctor.

Thanks for the reply, MonikaT. Unfortunately we're sure the test isn't an error -- we suspected as much so we repeated the test, one month apart, by a completely different lab. The results were almost identical.

I also agree that I have (virtually) none of the symptoms of low T. That's probably because my total T is in the normal range. In fact, when I'm not taking PM, my libido is actually out-of-control. I did read an article that discussed the difference between "free-T" and "bioavailable-T" (by the Mayo Clinic, I believe) that could explain my lack of symptoms. The thing that is most odd is the discordance between the numbers -- the normal total-T with the extremely low free-T.

Misty