Afraid to go home

[joshannon]

Afraid of the weather tonight.

I cycle everywhere, to make sure I do enough cardivascular exercise, 6 - 10 hours a week.

It has quite a strain on my thin klinefelter body - but its generally better for my health to do the exercise, than not do it and be plagued by anixety and feelings of being overwhelmed by it all (life the universe and everything).

I'm an untreated klinefelter, going alone against all odds.

My natural estrogen is very high 240 nmol/l, and my natural testosterone is quite low 5.9 nmol/l.

I feel reasonably comfortable within my natural E / T range.

I know that I'd feel uncomfortable with high T, and know that it would be a risky proposition for my health.

I have suffered from insomnia for the last 4 years.

I take St John's Wort for anxiety and .375mg of innovane (0.5 tablet) to get to REM state (i.e. 1st stage of sleep).

Got to go will finish this later.

Into the rain, thunder, lightening - home. I do hope I make it.

Cheers,

John S
A kiwi in Sydney, Australia.

[Priestess]

Hello John,

How do you convert nmol/l into other units? For CAH related blood levels, I've seen that 1 nmol/l equals 33.1 ng/dl, and that seems to work out right for your testosterone level, giving 195ng/dl which is a bit low. But when I try to apply that to your estrogen level, I get 7947ng/dl, and converting that to the pg/ml that estrogen levels are often given as, I end up with 79470pg/ml, which seems a bit wrong, or at least awefully fatal.

[Dana Gold]

Estradiol pg/mL X 3.671 = pmol/L…….

Testosterone ng/dL X 0.0347 = nmol/L

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/sc...ical_data.html

My natural estrogen is very high 240 nmol/l, and my natural testosterone is quite low 5.9 nmol/l.

You may have mixed up your units in the E2 and T........

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/ConvPrefe.htm

E2: 240nmol/L = 240000 pmol/L / 3.671 = 65,377 pg/ml ?... (reference range in pg/ml)

T: 5.9 nmol/L = 170 ng/dl = 17 ng/ml ?.... (reference range in ng/ml)


http://www.hosp.uky.edu/ClinLab/report.pdf

If your actual value E2 = 240pmol/L; then 65 pg/ml (slightly high for male )

If actual value T = 5.9 pmol/L; then 0.0059/0.0347 = .0.170 ng/dl or 170 ng/ml (a bit low for male)

To joshannon: "Going alone" may be quite detrimental to your health.....please refer to the Klinefelters section of this website for some very good information and experiences on healthy balance of hormones for 47XXY and variances....and then schedule an appt with a physician.

Dana