Alright,
I’ve been putting this off for a while now, but the power is off at work so here it goes. I’ve been dealing with lethargy, a general stressed out feeling and apathy for some time now. Not normally like me, so I decided to get all the blood tests I could. This is after trying to get as much sleep as possible, dealing with stress better, taking 10k iu of vitamin D and supplementing with fish oil.
On top of that my blood lipids are out of whack (as recently as Q4 2016 they were perfect) and while I’m down 20lbs this year (3" on waist) I seem to have stalled out despite taking a diet break after the initial loss. As an example I’m half way through the kettlebell swing challenge and my weight has increased from 218->225 while eating 2k cals per day. I took initial tape measurements, but there’s no way in hell I gained 7lbs of muscle in 2 weeks eating like that. I was hydrated before I started as well. So go figure.
HDL: 40 mg/dl. Range: >40
LDL: 149mg/dl Range: 0-99
Trigs: 201mg/dl Range: 0-150
Glucose: 101mg/dl Range: 75-110
Total Testosterone: 453.7 ng/dl Range: 280-800
Free T Calculated: 10.03ng/dl Range 5-21
I asked for the direct measurement test, but they didn’t offer it.
Estradiol (Male test): 15.3pg/ml Range 11-43
SHGB: 26.9nmol/L Range: 10-80
FSH: 1.8mIU/ml Range: 1.5-12.4
LH: 3.1mIU/ml Range: 1.7-8.6
VitD: 55.54ng/ml Range: 25-80
DHEA: 426.3ug/dl Range: 160-449
Free T3: 3.07pg/ml Range: 2-4.4
Free T4: 1.35 ng/el Range: .93-1.7
TSH: 1.37 uu/ml Range: .27-4.2
Cortisol: 7.66ug/do Range: 4.8-19.5
I know that I don’t FEEL right. I shouldn’t be holding this bodyweight at 2k cals either. Maybe the T numbers being that of the average 75yo man has something to do with it, or that could be confirmation bias. I want to get this fixed, without permanent TRT if possible but I won’t rule out two injections a week if it means everything else falls into place. What say you @KSman and @physioLojik ?