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May 7, 2006

Cleaning, the gym and bloodwork

I cleaned out one of the rooms in the house. It had become a temporary storage place for things I moved from the apartment that I'd intended to get to right away ... but never did. In the clutter I found things like videos, DVDs, CDs, two of the final bills I'd received when I left the apartment (which cleared up how I missed paying them) and pictures of the kids.

I also found the original paperwork for my gym membership: I joined in April 27, 2000. Which means my anniversary was something like a week and a half ago. Did I get a cake from the gym? Or even a protein bar? Nope.

I also found some early blood work (you can see it all here). This one from LabCorp which uses the 241-827 ng/dl scale as the normal range for a man's testosterone level. Using this scale the lowest my testosterone hit was 29 ng/dl (using and adjustment I apply).

The best thing about the blood work I found was how easy it is to read. I always have the results faxed to me and sometimes the quality is lacking. This copy is easy enough to read that I can make out the scales for women and men across the various age groups.

And they are ...

Age Male Female
1 - 5 months 1 - 177 1 - 5
6 - 11 months 2 - 7 2 - 5
1 - 5 years 0 - 10 0 - 10
6 - 7 years 0 - 20 0 - 10
8 - 10 years 0 - 25 0 - 30
11 - 12 years 0 - 350 0 - 50
13 - 15 years 15 - 500 0 - 50
Adult 241 - 827 14 - 76

What does this mean? Well, for me, it clears up something I remember once saying. And that is that at one point my testosterone was lower than that of some 12-year old girls. I remembered saying it but I couldn't remember where I'd gotten the idea. And really, I guess you could say at one time my T was lower than some 10-year old girls. (And, of course, most adult women.)

With my testosterone as low as it was there is no way I'd have ever gotten such a kick-ass table in a blog entry. Thanks to Pharmacia (Pfizer), we all win.

Oh, and that room that I cleaned. The one that was temporary storage ... what will it be used for now? I suspect it will be that extra room that every house has that no one ever uses.

Posted by delmer at May 7, 2006 12:04 AM

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