Age: 27
Height: 5’10"
Waist: 32"
Weight: 215
Body and Facial Hair: Patchy facial hair, some chest/shoulder hair grew after I started training
Where fat is stored: face, lower abs
Health conditions, symptoms: Nausea, no appetite
RX and OTC drugs, any hairloss/prostate drugs: 20mg Omeprazole daily, no hairloss/prostate drugs
Diet: High protein, moderate fat, high carbs
Training: 1.5 hours weight training 5x a week
Morning Wood: Have not had morning wood for atleast 4 years
Found this forum googling SHBG and TSH and figured I would see if anyone here could steer me in the right direction. A little over a year ago I suffered a distal biceps tendon rupture and had surgery to have it reattached. I could not workout for 3 months following the surgery and my weight dropped from ~230 @ 11% to 172 @ 13%. Putting on fat, even just a little bit, was something new for me as I was always skinny before I started working out (5'10" 135) even though my diet was terrible and I lived a pretty sedentary lifestyle. But my main problem is that a few weeks after the surgery I suddenly developed really bad anxiety which I had never had before so after a couple of visits to a GP, I was given xanax which did not help my anxiety unless I took enough to blackout.
Long story short, the anxiety only became somewhat manageable when I got back into my workout routine (seems I've developed some sort of dependence on working out). About 3 months back into working out I was back up to 215 lbs but the fat I had gained remained and I have been stuck at this weight for the last 6 months. So recently I had my blood tested at the GP to see if anything could explain why I still have anxiety but the dr. said that everything looked fine.
Here are my results (taken at 8:30 AM):
Glucose: 81 (65-100 mg/dl)
BUN: 19 (8-25 mg/dl)
Creatinine: 1.3 (0.8-1.4 mg/dl)
eGFR: 66 (>60 ml/min/1.73)
BUN/Creatinine: 15 (6-28 ratio)
Sodium: 137 (133-146 meq/l)
Potassium: 4.8 (3.5-5.3 meq/l)
Chloride: 103 (97-110 meq/l)
Carbon Dioxide: 22 (18-30 meq/l)
Calcium: 9.6 (8.5-10.5 mg/dl)
Protein, total: 7.0 (6.0-8.4 g/dl)
Albumin: 4.5 (2.9-5.0 g/dl)
Calculated Globulin: 2.5 (2.0-3.8 g/dl)
Calculated A/G Ratio: 1.8 (0.9-2.5 ratio)
Bilirubin, total: 0.7 (0.1-1.3 mg/dl)
Alkaline Phosphate: 52 (30-132 u/l)
SGOT (AST): 38 (5-35 u/l)
SGPT (ALT): 33 (7-56 u/l)
TSH: 3.6 (0.5-4.7 uiu/ml)
Free T4: 1.25 (0.73-1.95 ng/dl)
Prolactin: 8.1 (3.0-30.0 ng/dl)
Testosterone, total: 551 (292-1052 ng/dl)
SHBG: 63 (16-94 nmol/l)
Calculated Free Testosterone: 7.5 (4.8-25.0 ng/dl)
Calculated Free Testosteron %: 1.3
Cortisol, A.M.: 12 (7-25 ug/dl)
Intact PTH: 58 (11-67 pg/ml)
From looking online at sites like this, it seems that my TSH is slightly elevated and SHBG seemed pretty high resulting in relatively low free test but the dr. insisted that both values were completely normal. Another thing is that she told me that my estrogen levels were normal but when I got a copy of the results, estrogen was not even tested. Should I bother going to an endo with results like this? Not looking to go on TRT at 27 and I do not think my results are even close to warranting TRT but I would like to figure out how to possibly lower SHBG and fix any thyroid problem there may be.