Low testosterone and hair loss???

[JimmyJones12]

I am a 24 year old male, I first started noticing that my hair line was receding around 20. It was slow at first but during the past 18 months I have noticed a significant increase in the amount of hair I lose per a day. Along side this increased hair loss I have also noticed that my sex drive has decreased. I have always been very sexually active, I used to ejeculate anywhere from 1-5 times a day. But during the past 18 months I have been very busy, I'm now in a relationship that's lost some of it's spark and because i'm living with her I just don't get the opportunity or time to wank myself silly anymore and I avoid the sex as it is rather dull. I am also studying at university so any of my free time is spent sleeping/studying/going to the gym.


Anyway, I went to the doctor after a night shift and he checked my testosterone levels, it came back very low, I think it was 4.4 ng/l and normal is considered 8-28 or something in the UK. I am now waiting to have them tested again because he wants to do them when i haven't been deprived of sleep before he refers me to an endocrinologist. As you can imagine this came as a bit off a shock to me and it's completely put me off trying propecia or anything that's going to alter my hormones now.

If anything I was expecting the test result to come back high because of the increased hair loss, more test means more dht? my build (muscular) and the amount of body hair I have, are all signs of high testosterone right? My test is next week so i'm just playing the waiting game right now. As for treating my baldness, I think i'm just going to wait and hope that a safer more effective treatment is available within my life time.

Please share your thoughts and experiences.

[2020]

low T actually creates high DHT. Without your body compensating like that for low T, you would start to look like a woman. That's why some people only start balding in their 40s due to their lower testosterone and higher DHT

[NotBelievingIt]

Well, was that Total T or Free T? If it was low free T then yah, it likely means more DHT conversion is going on and getting on Propecia may help.

You should really have a more complete hormone panel work up done. Total T, Free T, DHT, Estradiol and SHBG.

Test levels alone don't mean anything as it relates to the sensitivity of your folliciles.

[JimmyJones12]

I'm pretty sure that was Total Test, I will get the results sent out to me shortly so I will know for sure then. To get free T and DHT levels checked at my GP would be impossible, I need to wait until he refers me to an endocrinologist who will then check everything I hope. He has also talked about the possibility of putting me on hormone replacement therapy, which would be a weekly injection of testosterone, I wonder how that would affect my DHT.

[BigThinker]

Hairloss associated with MPB can be accompanied by excess T a well though, right? I only ask because I have opposite "symptoms" occurring in conjunction with my thinning.

[Dr. Glenn Charles]

There are other hormones including cortisol levels that can effect the rate at which men have hair loss. It is a very complicated formula and also highly dependent on the genetic programming the person has.