Please read these stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- thyroid basics
- finding a TRT doc
Post all labs with ranges.
Check your oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky, this can be more informative than thyroid labs.
Thyroid function can be low from not using iodized salt and/or vitamins that list iodine+selenium
Thyroid symptoms:
- dry skin, brittle nails/hair, generalized hair thinning
- sparse outer eyebrows
- feel cold easily
Do these labs:
TSH
fT3
fT4 [not T3, T4]
rT3
AM cortisol, at 8AM please
DHEA-S [not DHEA]
Your metabolic collapse after training suggests adrenal fatigue, see references to that in the thyroid basics sticky as well as: rT3, cortisol, stress, Wilson’s book.
Describe how stress is/was a part of your life as well as high stress events, surgeries, illnesses etc.
Do not test DHT, will be low if T is low.