In middle age, you, as a man, or your sexual partner (keeping this observation to her/himself), will likely start to notice a group of symptoms due to a slow but inevitable decline of your male hormone testosterone. As the movie director Martin Scorsese put it well, “Sex becomes memory.” Not necessarily. Not by a long shot.
The medical term for this hormonal mischief is “andropause” sometimes called “male menopause.” I see billboards along the expressways referring to “low T.”
In case you’re young enough, or oblivious enough never to have noticed anything amiss, here are some symptoms you might experience down the
“Long Lonesome Low T Road,” trails of which vary among men themselves
You know for certain that pressing urgency you once had for sex(a/k/a your libido) is steadily declining. The “stirring” isn’t there like it used to be.
This is not the same as your new disappointment in your erection. That’s a different department altogether usually quickly repaired with Viagra or Cialis, neither of which do anything for libido. In the privacy of your bedroom, you look in the mirror and you see your body is changing. Despite your best intentions at the health club, your muscles are flabby, you’re getting a potbelly, you’ve lost a lot of your scalp, pubic and armpit hair and (Heaven forfend!) your genitals look smaller! And the amount of sperm you’re shooting out? Don’t even ask!
You might feel grumpier and impatient, depressed, less creative, have minor problems with memory (like word finding, or not remembering a name), and experience some insomnia.
And then there’s the chronic tiredness. With what once was a normal day’s activity, you now want to stay in bed longer, have an afternoon nap, go to bed earlier, fall asleep while watching TV.
As one patient described it well “My get-up-and-go-just-got-up-and-went.”
Causes Of Low T
