Systemlord
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Well it's official, looks like Hashimoto's disease to me and I have scheduled a consult with Defy Medical on July 11th. I am having flashbacks to a few months after I had successfully weaned myself off Klonopin (July 5 2016) and had sought answers to many of my symptoms, other than feeling the effects of low testosterone, my ankles and feet felt as if I had soaked them in a bucket of ice for a prolonged period of time. My endo at the time told me it is common among type 2 diabetic to have cold feet and feeling cold in general who at the time only tested for TSH.
I began TRT and the cold feet disappeared so I thought I was in the clear, the first 6 months of TRT made some progress learning that splitting up my shots from weekly to twice weekly gave me a more steady levels and felt better. I still felt minor swings, after 3-4 days I began to notice subtle changes in mood, mostly social avoidance and blue mood. Erections and libido were both still largely missing in action. So from everything I learned here I started 25mg EOD protocol, three and a half weeks into it all I noticed frequent erections and a strong libido.
Two days after each injection long after reaching a stable state continuing for months I notice I felt absolutely terrible, on and off. I developed a chronic cough in Nov 2017 that is still with me even now 6 months later and haven't been able to shake it, during this time I have notice my throat feels like insects are scratching under my adams apple and figured it was from the dry cough. Now I realize all this time it was my immune system attacking my thyroid gland. Even strange my body temperatures are hitting 98.6, so you can see why I was caught completely off guard.
The CVS minute clinic had noted rough, dry skin, high blood pressure (160/98), high heart rate (99 bpm), body temperature 98.7, 33% body fat. I do have some irritability on and off, oddly some days I have good energy and somes days I have horrible fatigue. I've read that 1/4 of people with Hashimoto's, it will simply go away and that normal thyroid function will return, it doesn't matter what they do, it will simply go away.
I appreciate any and all feedback, thank you!
Labcorp Results - 50mg twice weekly, 400mg DIM twice daily, 1000mg Calcium D glucarate twice daily. Little effect!
Total T = 677 ng/dL 264-916 ng/dL
Free T = 29.2 pg/mL 6.8-21.5 pg/mL
SHBG = 16.2 nmol/L 16.5-55.9 nmol/L
Sensitive E2 = 70.6 8.0-35.0 pg/mL Yikes!
TSH .902 0.450-4.500 uIU/mL Pre-TRT .580 uIU/mL
Free T4 1.37 0.82-1.77 ng/dL
Free T3 3.6 2.0-4.4 pg/mL
Reverse T3 22.4 9.2-24.1 ng/dL
Thyroglobulin Antibody 1.1 0.0-0.9 IU/mL
Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) Ab 10 0-34 IU/mL
Hemoglobin 16.7 13.0-17.7 g/dL
Hematocrit 48.8 37.5-51.0
RBC 5.58 4.14-5.80
DHEA-Sulfate = 224.1 - 71.6-375.4 ug/dL
AM Cortisol = 14.2 6.2 - 19.4 ug/dL
IGF = 153 67-205 ng/mL
Prostate Specific Ag, Serum 1.0 0.0-4.0 ng/mL
Magnesium, RBC 5.7 4.2-6.
I began TRT and the cold feet disappeared so I thought I was in the clear, the first 6 months of TRT made some progress learning that splitting up my shots from weekly to twice weekly gave me a more steady levels and felt better. I still felt minor swings, after 3-4 days I began to notice subtle changes in mood, mostly social avoidance and blue mood. Erections and libido were both still largely missing in action. So from everything I learned here I started 25mg EOD protocol, three and a half weeks into it all I noticed frequent erections and a strong libido.
Two days after each injection long after reaching a stable state continuing for months I notice I felt absolutely terrible, on and off. I developed a chronic cough in Nov 2017 that is still with me even now 6 months later and haven't been able to shake it, during this time I have notice my throat feels like insects are scratching under my adams apple and figured it was from the dry cough. Now I realize all this time it was my immune system attacking my thyroid gland. Even strange my body temperatures are hitting 98.6, so you can see why I was caught completely off guard.
The CVS minute clinic had noted rough, dry skin, high blood pressure (160/98), high heart rate (99 bpm), body temperature 98.7, 33% body fat. I do have some irritability on and off, oddly some days I have good energy and somes days I have horrible fatigue. I've read that 1/4 of people with Hashimoto's, it will simply go away and that normal thyroid function will return, it doesn't matter what they do, it will simply go away.
I appreciate any and all feedback, thank you!
Labcorp Results - 50mg twice weekly, 400mg DIM twice daily, 1000mg Calcium D glucarate twice daily. Little effect!
Total T = 677 ng/dL 264-916 ng/dL
Free T = 29.2 pg/mL 6.8-21.5 pg/mL
SHBG = 16.2 nmol/L 16.5-55.9 nmol/L
Sensitive E2 = 70.6 8.0-35.0 pg/mL Yikes!
TSH .902 0.450-4.500 uIU/mL Pre-TRT .580 uIU/mL
Free T4 1.37 0.82-1.77 ng/dL
Free T3 3.6 2.0-4.4 pg/mL
Reverse T3 22.4 9.2-24.1 ng/dL
Thyroglobulin Antibody 1.1 0.0-0.9 IU/mL
Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO) Ab 10 0-34 IU/mL
Hemoglobin 16.7 13.0-17.7 g/dL
Hematocrit 48.8 37.5-51.0
RBC 5.58 4.14-5.80
DHEA-Sulfate = 224.1 - 71.6-375.4 ug/dL
AM Cortisol = 14.2 6.2 - 19.4 ug/dL
IGF = 153 67-205 ng/mL
Prostate Specific Ag, Serum 1.0 0.0-4.0 ng/mL
Magnesium, RBC 5.7 4.2-6.
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