19 year old male, 6’ 196lbs 11% bodyfat, lifting for 4ish years. been having health issues recently and not happy with how i feel or my bloodwork need some pointers to fixing it or mitigating further issues. if there is anything else (bloodwork numbers other info etc) i can post that is useful let me know.
prolactin 15.1ng/ml
test 600 (they wouldn’t test free)
igf 1 277ng/ml
estradiol <20
fsh 6 mIU/ml
lh 3.3 mIU/ml
tsh 2.467 mcIU/ml
cholesterol 168mg/dl
hdl 51mg/dl
ldl 107mg/dl
I do not like where my prolactin, lh, fsh, and test are at. not sure if this is reasonable or I’m just being paranoid.
That’s a problem and also an indication these docs are clueless, most are when it comes to testosterone as someone can have a Total T @ 800 and still have low-T do to an elevation in SHBG which would mean Free T could be in the gutter if the SHBG is high enough.
This is causing your symptoms and normally when Free T is low, estrogen is low along with it. I can’t believe your docs didn’t take issue with this low estrogen, but again sex hormone knowledge in western medicine is seriously lacking among mainstream docs and even the ones you think would be the foremost experts.
yes, raloxifene for gyno, going to be off soon since it has basically quit working. my e2 was at 20 like a month ago and now i don’t know what it is. would be helpful to see how much i tanked it. what is a good range to have my estrogen in?
Cos you posted e2 <20 above. If you are using UGL meds, very possible that someone gave you an AI when you asked for Ralox cos they figured it would work just as good and had some on hand. Real SERM wouldn’t lower your e2 at all, would likely raise it in fact. Just my 2c
Sounds like it may have been requested but not actually ran because it was deemed “unnecessary”. I could be wrong but I believe insurance would just deny paying it and foot you the bill. Otherwise they would just deny it being tested at all because either way someone has to pay the lab and no reason for insurance to withhold results from you. More than likely, IMO, is the doc deemed it unnecessary and did not request it to be run. If it truly was tested and the doctor is refusing you the results, run from that doc!
You can go Labcorp’s website and create an account and view any labs that have been run for you there, if that happens to be the lab used. I would imagine other labs would have a similar setup to be used as well to access results.