How long in men does the menopause or andropause , over what course of time does it take place?
Dr. Shippen -It can be a very gradual decline. I call it in the book the “gray zone” because it doesn’t necessarily mean anything is wrong. In fact, we may not feel that anything specifically is wrong, it is kind of a vague sense of change, in your energy and get up and go. You may have some depression, you may not be as interested in outside activities, and you may become more of a couch potato. These things creep up on us and we tend to say I’m stressed, I am overworked, this is what burnout is, I am having a mid life crisis, this is what to expect, but it doesn’t happen to all men. Pat – If the average man went into his physician and I heard this program about testosterone on Channel 3 and I am feeling many of the symptoms and I think that I should be tested for my testosterone level. How would most physicians respond to that? Dr. Shippen – Physicians are beginning to change partly because we now have testosterone patches, which are a prescription item. There is more information in
