Help with Symptoms: Headaches, Anxiety, Low workout performance, Light headedness

I feel like my blood work is good? see:


Anxiety comes and goes; the low work out performance and light headedness is very annoying. Even basic stuff like elliptical for 45 minutes, I only managed to feel super fatigued and light headed. The feeling typically continues on for the rest of the day. If I drink any alcohol, it feels amplified the crappy feeling. I feel like the blood work is somewhat normal, my RBC’s have increased since the last one, same with hematocrit by 2 points… but still with-in range.

36y/o, 220, 5’11, Weights 3x a week, cardio on off days 45-60 mins. 1 Rest day. Blood pressure 120/79 at best, 149/89 at worst. Diet is pretty high in protein. 200+ grams per day. I try to stay hydrated as much as possible as well.

Basic supplements, nothing crazy. C,D, Fish oil, turmeric, magnesium, occasional p5p.

T dose at time of bloods: 40x2 Deep IM in Delt.
Recently switched to subq (read it can help with hematocrit). Daily 15mg. Roughly 1.5 weeks.

Any ideas? Thank you

I’m sorry to tell you this but subQ isn’t going to workout for you, I had the same problem!

SubQ made me feel like I’m drunk, lightheaded and or I just smoke weed while drinking whiskey.

I theorize it’s some sort of inflammatory response in the fat tissue from the subQ injection of Test.

You basically confirm it’s an inflammatory response due to drinking alcohol and having a worsening of symptoms.

The alcohol is interacting with the inflammatory response in your fat tissue.

Abort subQ protocol now or continue to suffer!

Thanks will do. I did have some of the symptoms on deep IM as well but less often. Just my anxiety was worse which could be unrelated to test.

I should add. The reason why I went to subq was because I had a headache for two days and felt pretty off after my last IM injection.

The first week of subq seemed okay, just slightly less energy. Then just the other day the head ache came back and light headedness. I don’t feel like my rbc is too high, but feels like I’m more sensitive to it or something. Seems like a lot of similar symptoms to high rbc.

I dislike donating blood. Last time I did it I almost passed out… but I will if I have too.

What does the doc say about your abnormally high CK levels?

He said it wasn’t too concerning given the weight lifting. I did a leg day the day b4, and had an rmt massage. Might have been the reason. Dunno. :man_shrugging:

TRT can deplete other vitamins and minerals, such as magnesium and pregnenolone.

Pregnenolone can decline on TRT due to the lack of LH which is a precursor to pregnenolone.

Either one of these could cause anxiety.