Not sure this is the right forum as it’s somewhat more general than T-replacement, but since that’s a possibility I thought I’d post it here. I’ve got a few questions about getting blood work done, but when I run searches most of the posts are people asking questions about specific values that came back on their blood work. My questions are prior to blood work and are general, so if anyone has links I could read up on, that would be appreciated as well.
I have been feeling run down as hell lately. At first I thought I was just overtrained/under-rested, so I took a week off from the gym. I slept 11 hours 3 outta 4 nights, so i thought that’s what it must’ve been, but even by the end of the week when my sleeping was more normal, i would get to the end of the day and feel completely exhausted, with no motivation to train and poor results when I did. I took another week off but this continued, so I’m thinking of going to a doc to get some blood drawn and a checkup. So…
I’m not even sure I know what levels of vitamins/minerals/hormones an athlete should be asking to get tested for. I’ve read about zinc and magnesium deficiencies and vitamin D; I can’t imagine I’m anemic given my diet, but want to rule that out, so I’d like my iron tested as well. Having read the articles on this site I’ll be asking for my testosterone levels to be checked as well. I’m 29, so I’m not expecting it to be low-low, but it would still be nice to eliminate that as a cause, and have a baseline to compare when I get older. I guess to get that tested I’m supposed to ask that free testosterone, leutinizing hormone and sex hormone binding globuline are tested? Do I have that correct? Anything else? (for either low testosterone or anything else.)