Really High Dht And Low T, Don't Know What To Do

[James_Page]

So, basically, I have a receding hairline with miniaturization and shedding at 22 years old, but literally no genetics for balding on both sides of family. In the exams my DHT showed as 1200ng in a scale of 300 to 900 and my testosterone was 300 where the minimum was 280 (although in a previous exam it was lower). This sucks cause I have the worst of both worlds. sh*t mood and erections, low libido, but balding. Anyways, this balding thing is making me really anxious and sad, so I thought about starting on finasteride just to see if it helps, but I'm afraid this would be a bad choice as my hair loss is not thaaaat bad yet. Do you guys think that because I have high dht it would avoid the symptoms? Or because of the low t I would surely have symptoms from the finasteride? Also, should I investigate the possible causes (if there's any) for this hormonal imbalance or is this completely normal? Sorry for the long post, I'm just very upset about my shitty luck.

 

[Baldingbob123456]

Based off of your hormone status and my understanding of hormones, I think a dht blocker would be your best friend. My initial impression of reading your post was that you have a very high conversion rate of test to dht. In other words you have a very active 5a-reductase activity converting all your test to dht. I mean 1200 ng of dht is high af bro. And 300 test is border line hypogonadic. I think you’d respond nicely to finasteride or duta. Check in with your doctor and even show them this post. I’m sure they’d agree with me

 

[badhabiz]

dht and T are fluctuants (in a -significant way-) during the day, before saying its an hormonal imbalance you should check androstenedion, prl, estradiol etc
and then you can consider get them in balance

in particular, if I may say, precursor as androstenedione is a much more reliable way to check you sexual hormones

 

[itsjustsimon]

What the f*** is going on that 22year olds have testosterone levels of 70 years old grandpas.

Anyways, timing is crucial with an antiandrogen. Finasteride will probably maintain if you're lucky and nothing more.

 

[James_Page]

Based off of your hormone status and my understanding of hormones, I think a dht blocker would be your best friend. My initial impression of reading your post was that you have a very high conversion rate of test to dht. In other words you have a very active 5a-reductase activity converting all your test to dht. I mean 1200 ng of dht is high af bro. And 300 test is border line hypogonadic. I think you’d respond nicely to finasteride or duta. Check in with your doctor and even show them this post. I’m sure they’d agree with me

Thanks, man. Yeah I guess I'll respond better to finasteride, maybe without side effects. But I have to do this without my Doctor knowing, cause she is totally against finasteride hahaha.

 

[James_Page]

dht and T are fluctuants (in a -significant way-) during the day, before saying its an hormonal imbalance you should check androstenedion, prl, estradiol etc
and then you can consider get them in balance

in particular, if I may say, precursor as androstenedione is a much more reliable way to check you sexual hormones

Thanks for this, I'll try to investigate those hormones too, I don't think I got tested for those.

 

[Aeroes]

Did you do steroids?

So, basically, I have a receding hairline with miniaturization and shedding at 22 years old, but literally no genetics for balding on both sides of family. In the exams my DHT showed as 1200ng in a scale of 300 to 900 and my testosterone was 300 where the minimum was 280 (although in a previous exam it was lower). This sucks cause I have the worst of both worlds. sh*t mood and erections, low libido, but balding. Anyways, this balding thing is making me really anxious and sad, so I thought about starting on finasteride just to see if it helps, but I'm afraid this would be a bad choice as my hair loss is not thaaaat bad yet. Do you guys think that because I have high dht it would avoid the symptoms? Or because of the low t I would surely have symptoms from the finasteride? Also, should I investigate the possible causes (if there's any) for this hormonal imbalance or is this completely normal? Sorry for the long post, I'm just very upset about my shitty luck.

 

[Tommybommy1363]

What the f*** is going on that 22year olds have testosterone levels of 70 years old grandpas.

Anyways, timing is crucial with an antiandrogen. Finasteride will probably maintain if you're lucky and nothing more.

I see you added minoxidil and rolling, any results yet?

 

[James_Page]

Did you do steroids?

Nope!

 

[arnoldd]

Did you do steroids?

sorry but why do you ask this ?

 

[Aeroes]

Because you can take steroids which increase DHT then they shutdown natural Testosterone to that low plus Hairloss. It's just a question.

 

[itsjustsimon]

I see you added minoxidil and rolling, any results yet?

Unforfunately no, dermarolling and minoxidil are not doing much for me.