I am on HRT and use a transdermal cream daily in the morning. I also supplement that with some Oral EpiAndro and often some transdermal Dermacrine. I am also prescribed 50 mg pregnelone daily.

I did my tests in the morning and had not applied my cream that morning so my testosterone levels were lower than normal ( in two previous tests I had put my cream on the night before and was over the reference range and so wanted this test low so they don't reduce the amount I am to take). Numbers in square brackets afterwards were the results from May 2015 and Feb 2015 respectively

I am in Canada so different units of measurement than US

Estradiol 31 pmole/L ( reference range 0 - 160) [ 110 106 ]
LH <1 ( refererence range 1 - 9) [ 1 <1 ]
Progesterone 4.5 H nmol/L ( reference range 0.0 to 3.0) [ 1.9 4.6 ]
Androstenedione 15.1 H nmol/L ( reference range 2.1 to 10.8 ) [ 10.6 9.5 ]
DHEA-S 13.6 Hunmol/L ( reference range 0.6 - 10 ) [ 6.6 9.1 ]
SHBG 31 nmol/L ( reference range 10 - 55) [ 52 59 ]
Total Testoserone 11.2 pmol/L ( reference range 8.0 - 29.0) [ 29.7 36.8 ]
Free Testosterone 248 pmol/L ( reference range 175 - 700 ) [ 552 643 ]


I think these numbers are OK but wanted to check with some of the sage advice here. I started taking the EpiAndro to keep estrogen down a bit and hopefully lower SHBG and that seemed to work. My test and free test is low in this results but I think that was because it was about 30 hours since my last application of cream ... previous results indicate my numbers are at or above the normal range when I apply 6-8 hrs before the blood work.

Progesterone, DHEA-S and Androstenedione are high but that is probably because of the oral pregnelone and transdermal Dermacrine I think .... maybe should stop doing both?

Any thoughts or red flags ?

BTW .. am ecstatic with my lipid profile . They tried to put me on Lipitor six years ago ... change to low carb diet and lipids now great

Cholesterol 4.66 (( range 4.2 - 5.2)
Triglycerides 0.78 ( range 0.6 - 2.3 )
HDL 1.51 (range >0.91)
LDL 2.80 (range 2.2 - 3.4)