Blood work II

[Tommy Wall]

Hi,

Just want to have some input regarding these labs (added from last time FT and SHBH):

Testosterone total 817 (250.0-827ng/dl)
Free Testosterone 15,00 pg/mL (EIA ref: 3,84 -34,17)
Estradiol (not sensitive) 37.86 (7.6-42.6pg/ml) (it´s not possible to have a sensitive test here, I´ll guess this serve only as an indicator and that my E2 is not high if a sensitive test normally shows lower values)
SHBH 25,88 nmol/L (13,50 – 71,40)
IGF-I 103.85 ug/L
Prolactina 8.65 ng/mL (4.04-15.2)
DHEA 132 ug/dL (80-560)
Gonodotrofina Corionica (HCG) 3 mUI/mL < 3

My protocol per week: 2x40-50mg test and HCG 2x500ui

 

[Gene Devine]

These look fine.

I would have like to seen Hematocrit and PSA.

How are thyroid labs?

How do you feel?

 

[Nelson Vergel]

Everything looks good. Why are you spending money testing hcg levels? I know you are on HCG but that test is for pregnancy and rare tumors.

 

[Gene Devine]

Everything looks good. Why are you spending money testing hcg levels? I know you are on HCG but that test is for pregnancy and rare tumors.

Not only that the assay is not very accurate at all.

 

[Tommy Wall]

Nelson it was my doc that ordered the HCG test. She is very interested because her father (my luck) is being treated by her due to low test and I gave her an articles from Dr Christler and your web page for this forum. Meaning she is all interested in this but as usual has very little knowledge.

Hemoglobina 15.8 (13.6-18.00g/dl)
Hematocrito 0.45 (0.40-0.52) L/L
PSA total 0,64 ng/mL < 4

Already posted these but
Ac.anti-Tiroglobulia (Tg) 14.00 kUI/L <115
Ac.anti-Tiroperoxidase (TPO) 11.00 kUI/L <34
TSH 2.96 (0.27-4.20 mUIl/L)
T3 1.49 (1.30--4.4 pg/ml)
fT4 1.05 (0.82-1.77 ng/dl) 13.44 pmol/L 12.00-22.00

 

[CoastWatcher]

Nelson it was my doc that ordered the HCG test. She is very interested because her father (my luck) is being treated by her due to low test and I gave her an articles from Dr Christler and your web page for this forum. Meaning she is all interested in this but as usual has very little knowledge.

Hemoglobina 15.8 (13.6-18.00g/dl)
Hematocrito 0.45 (0.40-0.52) L/L
PSA total 0,64 ng/mL < 4

Already posted these but
Ac.anti-Tiroglobulia (Tg) 14.00 kUI/L <115
Ac.anti-Tiroperoxidase (TPO) 11.00 kUI/L <34
TSH 2.96 (0.27-4.20 mUIl/L)
T3 1.49 (1.30--4.4 pg/ml)
fT4 1.05 (0.82-1.77 ng/dl) 13.44 pmol/L 12.00-22.00

Nothing like dragging your doctor along as you become more knowledgeable about your health!

 

[Gene Devine]

Nelson it was my doc that ordered the HCG test. She is very interested because her father (my luck) is being treated by her due to low test and I gave her an articles from Dr Christler and your web page for this forum. Meaning she is all interested in this but as usual has very little knowledge.

Hemoglobina 15.8 (13.6-18.00g/dl)
Hematocrito 0.45 (0.40-0.52) L/L
PSA total 0,64 ng/mL < 4

Already posted these but
Ac.anti-Tiroglobulia (Tg) 14.00 kUI/L <115
Ac.anti-Tiroperoxidase (TPO) 11.00 kUI/L <34
TSH 2.96 (0.27-4.20 mUIl/L)
T3 1.49 (1.30--4.4 pg/ml)
fT4 1.05 (0.82-1.77 ng/dl) 13.44 pmol/L 12.00-22.00

T3 is at the bottom of the reference range and probably why TSH is almost at 3.

Has your Doctor talked to you about your Thyroid?

You appear to be boarder line hypothyroidism.

Chris can explain more.

How do you feel?

 

[Tommy Wall]

Thanks to all you! My doc told me that my Thyroid is working but if I wanted I could try iodine which I been taking for some days “Solgar Kelp Nordic Atlantic”. I hope it will boost something! My experience with docs is if values are within range it is difficult to convince them to start a treatment (maybe unless you are dealing with a specialist in that specific area). I guess before any medical treatment my TSH would have to be closer to 4. I don´t know! I tried to argue that having values within range is not the same of having them at optimal level.
I just have a feeling that in case we don´t deal with doctors specialized in TRT, Thyroid etc.... we are a bit by our own.


I started with 250mg every third week and my first doctor who is an urologist told me frankly that he had no experience of TRT, but he would give it a shot anyway. But when I asked him to order a blood test including some hormones etc... He just replied “Oh no let´s not get into hormones, no need for that”. I got freaked out! Luckily my new doctor(GP) is much more open and willing to learn. She has even asked me something about TRT management. I guess it is due to that she is treating her own father with Testosterone but in the “old school way” and he was not feeling so good - so I told her to stop that and told her to divide the dosage into 1 or 2 per week etc.. and I also gave her the web address to this forum and as well printed out and gave her a copy of Dr. Crisler article reg TRT treatment and she was pleased. So maybe next appointment she will be even at ease to prescribe me HCG which I buy without prescriptions at the local pharmacy.

Thanks’ to this forum I have managed to get better and better and by copying more or less Nelson´s protocol and some part of Gene´s stack I am doing fine at the moment. No ups and downs and nice steady E2 etc... I also learned a lots from more of you guys about thyroid, syringes and needles you name it, and it goes on an on.
Thanks´ for doing a great job!