Hello. I said I was taking a break from the forum, and that is true, I’ve been very good about it over the last month or so and it has definitely reduced my depression and stress. However, I just got my bloodwork back today and since I’m assuming the foundation combs over these stories for data (if they don’t, they should) I thought I’d post the results.
The doctor tested everything except estrogen, that includes T, thyroid hormones, reverse thyroid hormones, blood cell count, pretty much everything, even minerals. I don’t really want to type all of that out and she said the lab used a goofy range for the T values, so I’ll just post a cliffnotes version of what we went over.
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Fortunately, it appears my brain is still signaling my balls to make T, so I don’t have to worry about being on TRT for life. That was a relief. However, it’s sluggish about it, which brings me to…
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My T has totally tanked. It’s incredibly low. I was fully expecting it to be “fine” along with everything else, like most PFS guys. To my surprise that was not the case, but again, fortunately my body is still making it properly, just not as much as it should.
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She said my thyroid was working fine, but was turning things into reverse T3 instead of T3, or something. I didn’t fully understand this to be honest, but it seemed like she wasn’t worried about it in the context of everything else and the treatment we outlined. We also ruled out hashimoto’s so we know my body isn’t attacking my thyroid, which is also good news.
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My red blood cell count was low, but not so low as to be anemic, so not a huge issue. White blood cells were fine.
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My DHEA is through the roof, to the point where she asked if I was supplementing it. Weird, but apparently lots of DHEA is good?
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HGH good, adrenal function good, so it seems adrenal fatigue isn’t involved.
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Vitamin B12 and Folate were really low, especially Folate. She said this was very important as it is involved in DNA, which I think droit and others are discussing in another thread. She gave me a fish oil and mineral supplement, the mineral one has tons of folate. So we’ll see how that works.
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Prostate appears to be fine.
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Liver isn’t working as well as it should. I don’t drink, so it appears Fin did some damage there.
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DHT is low, which is odd because my hair loss has been out of control. Maybe stress? Maybe I’m way more sensitive to DHT now? I dunno. I hope as my T recovers my hair loss doesn’t ramp up even further. This is still a very large source of depression for me. I’m hoping and praying it’s just stress from this whole mess and it will even out.
So basically it seems like everything is okay except my testosterone, which is totally wrecked. So perhaps in my case, my main issue is low T, and if I can boost that it’s possible I could recover like this dude viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2199. The last time I had genuine libido and initiated sex was at the start of March, after a month of working out. She wants to start me on Testosterone Cypionate (90mg) injections once per week to get my T up, which I didn’t agree to at the time but I am considering. I fully believe she knows exactly what she’s doing, she seems incredibly intelligent and is very kind, I’m just very scared of any kind of TRT because of the stories I’ve read on here about it making some people worse. She said this specific form of it is bioidentical (I think) and should not interfere with the body’s natural production, especially at such a low dose. I dunno, I’m still mulling it over. I’m just very scared of getting worse. I’m definitely going to start a heavy excersize routine now, maybe I can supplement Tribulus or something as well.
Anyway, that’s all for now. I’m actually semi hopeful now, the low T thing at least gives me a target to shoot for, plus I’ve ruled out some even worse case scenarios like being primary hypo or hashimotos. So here’s hoping I come back here one day with a recovery story for you. Good luck everyone. Keep fighting.
