So has anyone--most likely male anyones--had any experience with Low Testosterone issues? This would apply to SOs, of course. Hubby is on so many opioids for pain that his T-count went into ranges his doctors had never seen. And apparently his baby-soft face was not a result of him shaving a lot. He told me he was shaving barely once a week. So now he's on a testosterone gel--and I can't hug him bare skinned spontaneously anymore unless I want to go wash up thoroughly afterwards dammit. The upside is that his vicious moods are gone. The up/downside is that his bizarre sense of humor is back, where he gets so odd that I have been known to lock myself on the other side of a door from him. Hooray for happy Hubbys, but having a lower setting on the manic dial would have been nice.

Connie, high doses of opioids cause low testosterone? My dad has been taking fairly high doses of percocet daily for a few years because of more than one source of severe pain, and his doctor recently told him that his testosterone level was ridiculously low. I had no idea they were linked.

Health~ma for your sister, Connie.

Stephanie, that sounds appalling. What a relief that your broker knows what's going on.

Jars, yay for the British Museum! That's quite a place to be applying. Masses of job-ma!

Not getting the greatest of support from university over my request to do my PhD over four years (even though I made a very complicated schedule). My lovely supervisor says he'll try to persuade them, but he's going on about picking his moment and similar - he doesn't seem to have understood the concept that the department has legal responsibilities yet, but I'm working on it. It's been a week of migraines, so I've given up for now and I'll start again next week. I'm not taking any crap, though. They should have picked less of an expert on the DDA to mess with.

I had no idea they were linked.

Yup. Upping the t-count has all sorts of good side-effects--better mood, lower body fat, it's good for heart functioning, it just helps the male body work more like it should. (In all ways, and Hubby is getting cranky that fun activities aggravate the reasons he takes the pain pills.)

edit: And thank you all for the good wishes for my sister. I like to focus on Hubby feeling better, because looking at the picture of my gaunt sister from a year and a half ago and wondering what she looks like now depresses me.

amyth, sending all sorts of ~ma for good outcomes your brother's way, and strength and coping ~ma all around.

I don't really want to cook anything. But I can't go out to get food, and I can't order in, because there's a high school homecoming parade going by my house.

{{{{{amyth}}}}} So much surgery~ma to your brother.

Hil, I hate nights like that. Only I don't have homecoming outside, but my front door won't call up to my apartment, so I'd have to go down 2 flights of stairs to get food. And I'm not so good at carrying food that far.

Oh, amyth... so much surgery ~ma for you brother.

I have to write a blog entry/essay on my background as a musician. And how it led to my becoming a writer.

I have NO idea where to begin.