[AnnieBL]

Thanks Lotus for the posts. I now see that you were answering our posts, but I at least wasn't seeing this. . Mind you, I'm still trying to wrapt my mind around the various implications. From what you or your links say, extremely low SHBG levels are possible in conjunction with extremely low T levels, and if the results of my recent hormone level tests were reported correctly to me, my T was <0.7 and my SHBG <1.0. I suspect that in each case these readings represented 'lower than the lowest our lab can detect' which may be why no free T was calculated. They are presumably values on the Canadian or European scale, but even if multiplied up to the US scale are still abnormally low for people of either sex, in effect off the bottom of the scale. My NP does not wish to prescribe me T because of my heart condition. Despite the low levels, I suspect that PM is keeping me feeling good. PM is such a complex substance, and considered in Thailand to be beneficial for men as well as women, that it occurs to me to wonder whether it might contain androgenic as well as estrogenic components. Nothing in endocrinology ever seems to be straightforward.

All the very best from