22 year old injured vet on testosterone?

As Eliza Jane has pointed out, testosterone is critical in many ways to maintaining your health beyond just an adequate sex drive. This hormone is both androgenic and anabolic. The following excerpt explains each:

Anabolic effects include growth of muscle mass and strength, increased bone density and strength, and stimulation of linear growth and bone maturation.
Androgenic effects include maturation of the sex organs, particularly the penis and the formation of the scrotum in the fetus, and after birth (usually at puberty) a deepening of the voice, growth of the beard and axillary hair. Many of these fall into the category of male secondary sex characteristics.

For a complete read about this critical hormone go to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone

Scroll through the article to find further ways that a low level can affect your health.

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I want to encourage you, as Eliza Jane has, to be persistent in getting your needs met at the VA. Addressing this problem will help your motivational levels and concentration.

Thank you for serving our country and I'll be praying that you get the relief you deserve,

Laurie

First, thank you for serving, and making it home alive, albiet in mental disarrary. PTSD, huge all by itself, most likely is the cause if the other symptoms you are having. The medications you said you are on, which you did not mention by name, but I have a distinct feeling they are depression meds, mood elevators, pain pills, morphine, oxy, valium, Xanax, vicodin, elavil, testosterone, percocets, lortabs, klonipin, any of these sound familiar?.
Its good that you make yourself motivated to atleast go work out, exercise is great for the mind, body and yes the spirit that is so deprived. You are exhausted mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually. Wounded, and scarred for life for what you did to help protect this country we all call home, and without guys like you, there would be no home to come home too!!!

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Best to talk to others in a group going through the same sh... I know there are military groups, therapy, and family services offered if you know who to talk to, and where to go for the help the VA says they give, but don't tell you how to get the services they profess to offer every Vet. I suggest the local VFW, AM-VETS, closest to your housing facility, ask for the benefits officer, get the local phone number to the man that can give you the hand and the answers you are seeking and so desperately need, and deserve. Believe me it is not an easy task, but I have done it for my local military friends and they have gotten help they need with no problem from any where. As a matter of fact just recently one who has PTSD, suicidal, depressed, newly divorced, homeless basically, no family help, called the number I got for him at the VFW across from my home, and baddaboom baddaboom, he was treated, helped, hospitalized and taken care of in every fashion necessary. And he did not have to go to the VA hospital either, it was a local hospital that accepts VA benefits.
Good Luck young man,

First I would like to thank you for your service. I was at one of the VA clinics here in Utah in Dec 2011. I asked the Dr there if I could get the Testosterone shoots there, she "said yes they would even show me how to give them to my self". I know the VA is slow even double slow. Been waiting for a eye appt since Dec 20011.I have been fighting low t for 3 years now. Had a great Dr who had me on Bio-Indentical Testosterone. Was having it made at a compounding pharmacy, it was working super levels were up. He then retired and I had to find another Dr.New Dr had me using the same cream, made at a defferent pharmacy. It stopped working. Have been trying the shoots once every two weeks. They worked ok but have a low in the week before the shot. Now trying Andro-Gel. Time will tell on that. Yes drugs for High blood pressure and High Chlosterol can cause ED. I am a bit over weight and am sure that doesn't help T levels. Good luck Jack

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Here is a good book to read if you have time. Testorterone for Life. By DR. Abraham Morgentaler. He is Assoc Prof. at Harrvad Med school