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Originally Posted by short311fan
... i didn't look like any of the other boys, i had longer legs and arms, and once i became a teenager, i started develpoing a "chest" and my hips widened somewhat.....
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Longer arms and legs is a sign that you were probably hypogonadic while you were growing up, your long bones not closing due to lack of estrone. Estrone is a by-product of aromatization, either estrogen or testosterone can produce it. Breast development can either mean gynecomastia, which can happen to normal teenage boys, again due to aromatization. But lack of that would tend to imply that the cause was a high level of estrogen in your system.
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finally, i went and saw my family practitioner, who, after a sperm count, told me "there's nothing wrong, you're just infertile, sorry, there's nothing more i can do", and at that time, where i lived at, there weren't many alternatives for second opinions (i also had crappy insurance), so, even though i wasn't satisfied with those results, i lived with it..... finally, somewhere i came across an article about testicular cancer, and it mentioned KF and some of the symptoms, and i thought "ok, why does this sound like they're describing me?"..... so i've finally found a doc that's willing to run the proper tests and give me an honest diagnosis, now i'm just getting up the nerve to go in and have the tests ran, i'm scared to death of what they're going to find, and the fallout with all my friends, my family, and especially my wife.....
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Your 30 now, and you've had these hormonal anomalies since the time you should have been having puberty. If it's been testicular cancer all this time, you've have died at least 10 years ago. So you shouldn't worry yourself to death over the fear.
Don't be afraid, there are so many other strange and interesting conditions you could have besides cancer. And some of them I think would also leave you in a bit of shock too.
If you've been trying and trying to father a child, without noticing umm functional problems, that narrows down the possibilities a lot. An untreated case of (KS, 47xxy) would fit the situation you've described. Or partial-AIS.
Unfortunately, both of those would mean you'd have a very difficult and expensive time trying to be fertile. A karotype would show the KS. I believe checking for partial-AIS would involve testing whether you currently have a low testosterone level or whether it's acceptable and being ignored by your body.
There are some more unusual conditions you could have, but see what the tests say. The lists of further possibilities depend on your dna and hormone levels.