Bump
Can I get a name for the specialist at Mt. Sinai?
Update on my blood tests… here are my results january 2011 compared to now in 2014
January 2011
FSH - 1.8 on a scale of 2.0 - 18.0 IU/L
LH - 7.7 on a scale of 2.0 - 18.0 IU/L
PROLACTIN - 22.2 on a scale of 2.0 - 18.0 IU/L
T3 - Approved - 5.3 on a scale of 3.5 - 6.5 pmol/L
Cortisol AM 413 on a scale of 140-700 nmol/L
February 2014
FSH - 1.6 on a scale of 2.0 - 18.0 IU/L
LH - 10.8 on a scale of 2.0 - 18.0 IU/L
PROLACTIN - 13.6 on a scale of 2.0 - 18.0 IU/L
T3 - Approved - 5.3 on a scale of 3.5 - 6.5 pmol/L
Cortisol AM 218 on a scale of 140-700 nmol/L
Any ideas on what’s going on…
I’m Turning 27 in a few days… Been near 5 years of emotional blunting… no energy… no motivation no matter how hard I try… I’m like an empty robot…
I go to the gym everyday and do my work out but its like im not in my body and it’s just mechanical…
exhausted everyday…
I went about 2 years of sleeping 16 hour a day and no job… couldn’t do jack shit…
and now for the past year i decided i need to do my damn best to do something even though there is no joy in anything… so I got a full time job… working out everyday… It’s a struggle to get out of bed in the morning but I do it… It’s a struggle to stay awake at work as well… for a year straight and i still feel like absolute shit… i don’t feel like a human being… I don’t know why I do anything. And i Don’t mean that statement as a whiny one. I literally cannot understand the point of doing anything because everything is empty and pointless. 27 living at home… no girlfriend… no motivation… Fuck.
Anyone else suffering like this for years? Has anyone had a miraculous moment where the brain remembers everything at once and the emotions come back?
My brain will not fucking relax… for years… terrible sleep… I have not had a deep relaxing sleep in years… I’ts a wonder how my body and mind can even function. My body aches everywhere constantly like I’m an 80 year old man… I cannot even take deep breathes anymore everything is so stiff around my ribcage… even though I have been doing yoga and breathing excersises constantly throughout the day for a years…
Man lol… Just man… I’m so disociated from who I used to be 5 years ago… everything feels unreal. I don’t recognize myself… I feel like My spirit left my body and now I’m a ghost in a shell.
Your cortisol looks pretty low. You may want to get a 24 hr salivary cortisol test. That may have something to do with your energy levels. Perhaps try taking some medication for your sleep issue. Getting deep, stage 4 sleep is vital. I would recommend a low dose of mirtizapine. It helped me and numerous others to get a good nights sleep. You may feel better in some respects by sorting your sleep out.
check salivary cortisol and supplement accordingly if necessary
mirtazapine lowers cortisol further, you might want to avoid it, as you might want to avoid any sleeping pill. they all lower cortisol
better something more energizing in the morning and nothing at night… but check cortisol salivary 4x a day