Changed TRT protocol in August, levels a lot higher and was initially a lot hungrier and I’ve gained about 15 pounds. Nice for the gym but it’s not all muscle and water. I’m about to need new pants.
Thyroid gets lots of attention here so I decided to run some labs to see where I’m at. From my research I’m not hypothyroid but not optimal either. Worth looking in to further or not?
Reverse T3 is a little high, but free T3 is high enough. Do you have any significant signs or symptoms hypothyroidism? I don’t think this is something to take simply to loss some weight.
Actually, I think I’m finally starting to get my protocol dialed in. I was having trouble sleeping, fatigue, and brain fog but that seems to have improved with adding 5 Htp (knock on wood).
There’s a lot of discussion on this board about TRT revealing subclinical hypothyroidism so with my symptoms that’s why I ran the tests. Prior to TRT my free T3 and T4 numbers were similar, my TSH was a little lower and I don’t have a lab for reverse T3 pre-TRT.
I think your thyroid numbers look good. RT3 is a bit high you can look into iron, selenium and sodium levels but I dont think that is causing you much symptoms
You have high RT3 due to your FT4 converting it to RT3 instead of T3 which can be due to a bunch of things, mainly stress related things like an infektion, inflammation, cutting, stressful life and etc