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9 votes
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Lemon-scented marijuana compound reduces weed’s ‘paranoia’ effect
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Ronald Reagan-era emergency health care law is the next abortion flashpoint at the US Supreme Court
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‘Like a film in my mind’: hyperphantasia and the quest to understand vivid imaginations
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US medical providers still grappling with UnitedHealth cyberattack
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The troubling trend in teenage sex (it's strangulation) (gifted link)
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Anyone here suffering from low testosterone?
I am 37yo. One year ago I did a checkup and asked for my testosterone levels because I was feeling my libido was lower than normal. The results came back and my numbers were 377 ng/dL, free test...
I am 37yo.
One year ago I did a checkup and asked for my testosterone levels because I was feeling my libido was lower than normal.
The results came back and my numbers were 377 ng/dL, free test was 9 ng/dL and SHBG 23,6 mmol/L.
It was low, but within the normal range.
Everything else was perfectly normal.
Now almost a year later I am feeling that things are worse. I can go a week without feeling any desire. I still have morning wood, but it is not every day like it was. I have sex with my SO, but I can easily lose my erection.
I scheduled an appointment with an endocrinologist from my health inssurance, but it has a spot only in July!
So I went to a lab and did a blood test for testosterone and it is indeed worse.
It is now 255 ng/dL, free test was 6,5 ng/dL and SHBG 19 mmol/L.
I am physically active, lift weights 4 days per week, can squat relatively big numbers, am not overweight (on mornings I have a six pack) and drink alcohol only on weekends.
Is this drop normal when you reach 40s or there is probably an issue here?
I thought HRT was for when we were in our 50s.
Anybody has gone through anything similar and can share your stories?
17 votes -
Indiana now has a religious right to abortion
28 votes -
California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water
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Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide
27 votes -
This is a teenager
36 votes -
AI traces mysterious metastatic cancers to their source
4 votes -
UK MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009
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Front-of-package protein labels on cereal create health halos
7 votes -
A discovery among the mummies reveals a sick, sad truth. Parasitic worms plagued these ancient Egyptian Pharaohs.
8 votes -
Joe Biden administration sets first-ever limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in US drinking water
26 votes -
Indiana appeals court upholds injunction on abortion ban, citing religious liberty
17 votes -
Does the Dog Die? - A website for filtering movies by triggers
33 votes -
The costs of a phone-based childhood
35 votes -
Loneliness can kill, and new research shows middle-aged Americans are particularly vulnerable
31 votes -
Researchers map how the brain regulates emotions
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Do US voters care about policy even a little?
31 votes -
AI assists clinicians in responding to patient messages at Stanford Medicine
4 votes -
Few states cover fertility treatment for same-sex couples, but that could be changing
4 votes -
American contracts bird flu after exposure to virus spreading in cows
17 votes -
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
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The influencer who “reverses” Lupus with smoothies. Psychiatrist Brooke Goldner makes extraordinary claims about incurable diseases. It’s brought her a mansion, a Ferrari, and a huge social following.
18 votes -
The fight for abortion pills – In the US, UK and around the world, the backlash against safe, at-home abortion medication is growing
26 votes -
More exposure to artificial, bright, outdoor night-time light linked to higher stroke risk
16 votes -
There is no evidence that CBD products reduce chronic pain, and taking them is a waste of money and potentially harmful to health, new research finds
58 votes -
All the ways car dependency is wrecking us – car harm: a global review of automobility's harm to people and the environment
15 votes -
The Spider Within: A Spiderverse story
12 votes -
Jacob’s Dream - MAGA meets the Age of Aquarius
3 votes -
Black LGBTQ+ youth need spaces that embrace them fully, researchers say
7 votes -
US President Joe Biden just signed the largest executive order focused on women’s health
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Deadly morel mushroom outbreak highlights big gaps in fungi knowledge
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The health impacts of red meat - reviewing a recent study and current recommendations
10 votes -
Living day to day with the weight of existing
I have no idea how to word this, as every similar post that I've seen has had an obvious cause, in some way shape or form. I, on the other hand, feel pretty shitty even writing this up know that...
I have no idea how to word this, as every similar post that I've seen has had an obvious cause, in some way shape or form. I, on the other hand, feel pretty shitty even writing this up know that others have actual problems that I am taking that visibility from.
When I wake up, I get to go to work a job that mentally stimulates me, teaches me new things (both in terms of a legacy system and in terms of new technology), and lets me work from home 3/5 days a week. On top of that, I have a very solid housing situation where I don't need to worry about rent being raised. I have a (reliable) car that only needs routine maintanence, and has very good MPG. I have a dog that I love, and would easily die for without a second thought. I have family living nearby, that, while we don't agree religiously or politically most times, can all get along and enjoy holidays or get togethers.
And yet, feel like I lied about my life just now.
When I wake up, the first thought isn't that my dog is waking me up to go out, it is the feeling of the weight that merely existing seems to put on me. As I just stated earlier, my job is not the cause of stress, neither is housing, nor food, nor family. I have no reason to feel the way that I do.
I've recently (in the last 6 months) started journaling, and the main theme that I have found is that I am constantly thankful for having everything that I do. And yet, tomorrow, when I open my eyes, either due to the alarm, or due to my dog waking me up to go outside, I will have a weight laying over my chest that I can only attribute to the fact that I still exist.
I try to ignore the news (while staying informed enough to vote properly on candidates), I don't use social media except for Tildes and to share the once a week or two photo on Instagram, and I am both active physically, and creatively. None of this seems to remove the weight. I feel like I am either wasting my existence when I am consuming media, wasting my time attempting to create when others have voices or messages with stronger meaning, or wasting other's time when I hang around them.
I have no right to complain about my life. Hell, two years ago I would have killed for what I have now. And, yet, I feel like I am wasting what I have been given. I am legitimately happiest sitting out in my backyard with my dog, either sipping a beer or just watching the stars. The issue is, that when I do, a weight slowly lays itself over me, one that I do not know the cause of, or reason for. A weight that I cannot shake, and can only attribute to simply existing.
I would like so very much, even temporarily, to remove it.
43 votes -
Trolls targeted TikTok librarian Mychal Threets. Now he’s quitting to rediscover his library joy.
31 votes -
New York midwife fined for giving 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of vaccines
42 votes -
Britain’s future is being compromised by the massive increase in long-term sickness among the working age population
9 votes -
German man deliberately receives 217 Covid vaccinations over twenty-nine months, with no adverse events or strong effect on immune system
45 votes -
The life-ruining power of routines: Habits don’t lead to personal optimisation. They lead to suffering.
32 votes -
The problem with California Prop 1
8 votes -
France becomes the first country in the world to guarantee abortion as a constitutional right
58 votes -
Sen. Ron Wyden exposes data brokers selling US location data to anti-abortion groups that target abortion seekers
45 votes -
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 70s
29 votes -
US prescription market hamstrung for nine days (so far) by ransomware attack
39 votes -
More than 1 billion people worldwide are now estimated to have obesity
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'I stopped believing in myself': Game developers share the human impact of over a year of mass layoffs
42 votes