1st Lab Results (Pre-Consultation)

[FastCat]

43yo, 5-10 180, athletic-type build. Fatigue issues have been mounting for the last few years. Energy levels down. Moody with a tendency to dwell on negatives for a few days. For many years, I was robotic in hitting the weights, exercising and eating right to the point where I put up some really nice numbers in the weight room. For about two years, I have not been able to sustain any weight training for longer than 4-5 weeks before feeling awful....even when just focusing on light weights. Anyways, had labs ran and then consulted with Defy.

Labs:
TT: 668 (264-916)
FT: 9.2 (6.8-21.5)
LH: 4.7 (1.7-8.6)
DHEAS: 181 (102-416)
E2: 23 (8-35)
SHBG: 68 (16-56)

Protocol Recommendation:
TestC: 80mg/2x wk (Mon & Thur)
HCG: 500IU/ 2x wk
AI: .125/2x wk

DHEA: 50mg/day
D3: 5000IU/day
CoQ10: 100/day
Fish Oil

 

[mrhat75]

Ever have your thyroid checked? What are your body temperatures in the morning and mid afternoon?

TRT and raising DHEA should lower that SHBG. As far as testosterone is concerned, TT is solid for your age but that high SHBG is lowering FT.

 

[Deleted member 16042]

First reaction; something else in play causing your problems, many possibilities; Thyroid, adrenal, infection, drug side effect, anemia, sleep apnea, autoimmune, overtraining/not resting enough, etc

I'd just about kill for those T, Free T, E2 and DHEA numbers! I personally would have never started TRT. YMMV.

 

[Vince Carter]

I'd go along with these two, TRT is a little suspect with those numbers though I know we can talk about symptom based treatment and treatment of the low FT/high SHBG. I might have been more wary to TRT with those numbers myself.

 

[Zooka15]

I can't believe they started you on TRT. I love that your E2 is lower with almost 700 T level , yet given anastrozole.