BLOODWORK
First things first. You need some bloodwork to begin to understand what is going on in your body. You will want to see your general panel for basic health but for your purposes "free test" levels in addition to the normal test readings on a standard test. As a potential HRT candidate, igf-1 levels could supply more info as to whats going on in the hpga as well.

ASSESSMENT
Now you have to begin to decide what it is you will do to improve your situation if everything is not perfect. I would suggest never listening to anyone using the word "normal" in this situation. Normal is a term used by Docs in general that is relative. What he/she is saying usually is "normal" for your age. Thats the whole point of trt/hrt, we don't want to be normal for our age!
It is very important to have the initial conversation with your Doc as to what it is you can do to bring your health in general up to a high standard, that includes hormone therapy. If your Doc is closed minded or too old to think outside the box they have lived 100 years in then you need to keep that in mind as you assess your move forward.
I don't want to come off as though all your answers are here at eroids but I can tell you this...your Doc is one opinion based on years of training that may or may not have been designed to help people in your situation. The endocrine system is understood to some degree but not a great deal of training as it pertains to improvement or moving back in time has been learned by a GP. Particularly one that is of the mindset that healing is their primary goal. A doctor who has made prevention their primary goal is what I personally look for. I don't want to be healed, I want to prevent depriciation and disease as a bi-product of that depriciation.

ACTION
Now that you understand what your numbers are and have come to the conclusion to treat your assumed low hormone levels you have to think of how to go about that in the most effective and healthy way. You can't just think of this as a solution that includes adding additional hormone and boom you're fixed. Its just not that simple, there are negatives that need to be eliminated as you increase the hormone defficiency, assuming there is one. I would suggest receiving therapy as soon as possible but beginning to tackle the negatives is a very big part of improvement.
I'll start therapy thoughts by saying lets think of what is going on in the body as a civil war as I have described it hee before. There are troops fighting against the common good for their own personal gain. Estroge n is a good place to begin since it has so many negtive effects if it is high. During your blood work you found out your estradial level. Lets assume that was high for this discussion. Lets assume it was 80 and your standard test numbers were actually prety good but your free test level was only 200. How can that be? These are the troops responsible for your low free test levels and they brought friends!
High estrogen. Is an indicator. As estrogen rises so does Shbg. Shbg stores tstosterone for a rainy day. The problem here is that it thinks a rainy day is something much different than you do and will store too much for too long for our needs with high estrogen levels. Let think of it like this...I give you a million dollars but I lock all but 5 dollars of it in a safe and tell you that you can never use it even though it belongs to you. Won't do you much good huh? That is exactly what is happening if you hit your test therapy and your estrogen and SHBG is high, it will mean little.
You can begin to see why it iis that you have to educate yourself on all the negatives going on in the body while considering therapy. Therapy may only be 30% effective if you do not correct the negatives by killing off opposing troops so your own troops are more effective.
SUCCESS
Success will be defined by how well you feel, how healthy you begin to look, overall improvement and bloodwork. As you begin a therapy and go to work eroding fat through diet and maybe contolling estrogen and SHBG with an AI and supps you need periodic blood work to analyze the success of the therapy. The blood work will tell you where you need to put more emphasis as well as find your sweet spots in terms of compound use...very important. Feeling better is not the only goal obviously. Work the therapy and the diet and supps and research constantly to find ways to live healthier in general.

So now I have set out some things that are important to me and would like to hear what is helping you so we can all continue to be better and healthier. I would start with cardio for myself. Cardio should be a constant in our lives and will actually benefit everything we do from a health standpoint.....pop in your success stories but most importantly how it is you are succeeding so I can get in on some of that goodness too! By the way, perfect therapy in my opinion, as it relates to the above and the HPGA includes all of the above and hgh at 2 iu's with test therapy. Then you get it all working right and talk about a blast here and there...or not.